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Accidents List for IAF

A total of 1024 Accidents and Losses are listed.

Date Aircraft Cat Rank, Name & Photo Unit Serial Remarks
28 Aug 47 Tempest II F Sqn Ldr Mohan Dev Suri* 3 Cr in bad weather on ferry flight Bom to Pune

31 Aug 47 Dakota C-47 C Sqn Ldr Satinder Lal Rikhye* 12 C-47 Cr while landing at Palam 5 Cr Killed

30 Oct 47 Dakota C-47 C Flt Lt Clifford Joseph Mendoza* 12 MA-965 Cr in Pirpanjal killing some 20+ people. ...More

05 Nov 47 Spitfire VIII F Fg Offr P V S Ram BO Muree Pakistan ...More

11 Nov 47 Tempest II F Sqn Ldr Anand Ramdas Pandit DFC 3 PR-836 Injured in Crash at Pune

01 Dec 47 Harvard T-6 F Flt Lt Ulrich Anthony D'Cruz 7 SD by Ground fire ...More

29 Jan 48 Tempest II F Fg Offr Amrit Singh Bakshi 8 ac crashed landing at jammu caught fire

15 Mar 48 Tempest II F Fg Offr Donald Michael 8 PR-749 Battle Damage, Ac Cr and overturned Jammu

16 Mar 48 Tempest II F Fg Offr Balwant Singh* 8 PR-597 SD by AA fire ...More

21 Mar 48 Dakota C-47 C Wg Cdr Karori Lal Bhatia 12 w/o dam by arty fire Poonch airstrip ...More

22 Mar 48 Tempest II F Flt Lt Sardindu Das Gupta* 10 PR-660 during an operational sortie in Kashmir

12 May 48 Tempest II F Fg Offr Derek Austin O'Brien* 8 PR-601 Stuck throttle on Ldg at Jammu. Crashed

01 Jul 48 Tempest II F Plt Offr R D Coelho* 3 K in Crash at Pune

08 Aug 48 Tempest II F Flt Lt Aloysius William Barrette* 8 HA-431 AC cr on TO at Jammu during airtest

12 Sep 48 Tempest II F Fg Offr D G Baptiste* 7 HA-411 SD by AA Fire Kishen Ganga Valley

14 Sep 48 Tempest II F 3 Hyd Ops Sortie to Hospet ran out fuel Plt BO ...More

14 Sep 48 Tempest II F 3 Hyd Ops Sortie to Hospet ac CrL at Sholapur ...More

03 Oct 48 Tempest II F Fg Offr U G Wright 7 HA-363 SD over Kishenganga, Baled Out. ...More

05 Nov 48 Tempest II F Plt Offr Ivor Patrick Carrapiett* 10 HA-416 Accident DNE

03 May 49 Tempest II F Flt Lt Arthur Srihari* k in crash

07 Nov 49 Tempest II F Sqn Ldr R V Ghisad* 4 failed to pull out of dive - Hyd FPD

16 Nov 49 Tempest II F collided with above - Plt BO ...More

16 Nov 49 Tempest II F Fg Offr Neville Harrison* Bird hit and MAC with wingman over Cal 11k in all ...More

01 Apr 50 Tempest II F 4 Cr in Mothamulla River Pune. DNE ...More

28 Apr 50 Tempest II F Sqn Ldr K M David VrC* 3 Cr ferrying a snagged aircraft to Pune ...More

15 May 50 Tempest II F Fg Offr Y Dutt 3 BO at 1000 feet when aircraft caught fire Pune

01 Jun 50 Prentice T Flt Lt D Piggott* HAL Collided with another ac and cr Bangalore ...More

01 Jul 50 Harvard T-6 T Flt Cdt P R Singh* AFA k in Night Force landing ACWO Plt K

26 Jul 50 Spitfire XVIII F Plt Offr S K Gorewala AFA Cr due to engine failure at ambala after touch n g

30 Aug 50 Prentice T Mr. Edward W Todd* HAL Aircraft broke up. Plt Killed

01 Jan 51 Devon C Flt Lt F D Irani HQ Cr l at Jaipur

01 Jan 51 Harvard T-6 T AFA Ambala . Cdt committed sucide and killed instructo

07 Feb 51 Vampire FB52 F Sqn Ldr B S Dogra VrC* 7 Cr during Circuit at Palam 0755 Hrs ...More

07 Feb 51 Tempest II F Plt Offr Stephen Patrick Michael* 4 Prop detached, BO over Western Ghats ...More

05 Apr 51 Tempest II F Plt Offr Kishen Advani CTU HA-578 Ambala Wheel came off during ldg, nosed over ...More

01 Jun 51 Harvard T-6 T Fg Offr Rikh Stalled at Jamnagar 2 killed DNE ...More

20 Aug 51 Unidentified T 11 k when ac cr at Pune ...More

27 Aug 51 Dakota C-47 C Fg Offr R D Sahni 12 HJ-913 ac ditched Wular Lake due to pt negligence. ...More

06 Oct 51 Dakota C-47 C Air Cmde Narendra* 12 Cr in Turkey - Malta Cyprus lost way ...More

24 Nov 51 Tempest II F Fg Offr Hugo Gracias 3 flew into tree during LL flying Halwara

01 Dec 51 Tigermoth DH82 T Flt Lt G B Cabral VrC* AFA Cr at Glass Factory Begumpet - F/C S D Ghaisad K

03 Feb 52 Devon C Flt Lt Suhas Biswas HQ HW-516 Cr soon after To Lucknow ...More

27 Feb 52 Dakota C-47 C Fg Offr P K Gandhi 11 HJ-880 cr landed in Palta Lake. ...More

05 Apr 52 Spitfire XVIII F Plt Offr I M Chopra 14 HS-679 BO Jamnagar coast - target drogue fouled elevator

01 Aug 52 HT-2 T Sqn Ldr Suranjan Das HAL BO Southwest of Yelahanka. DNE ...More

01 Aug 52 Tempest II F 3 Pilot killed in Crash

28 Oct 52 Tempest II F Flt Cdt C V Parker FTW HA-596 bo after to from hakimpet ...More

01 Jan 53 Tigermoth DH82 T Flt Cdt A K Singh* AFA DNE - Begumpet 62 F(P)

01 Aug 53 Spitfire XVIII F Plt Offr Kartar Singh Gill* CTU Spun into ground Hakimpet ...More

01 Sep 53 Spitfire XVIII F Plt Offr B K Chatterjee CTU Nosed over at Hakimpet ...More


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