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Accident Reports

D: May 31, 2012
N/U: US Air Force/325th
FW/43rd FS
T: F-22A Raptor
S: 02-4037 ‘TY’
Despite an estimated $35m of
damage incurred to this jet during
a belly landing at Tyndall Air
Force Base, Florida (see Attrition,
January 2013) it was decided to
repair it, due to the limited number Maj Philip ‘Stonewall’ Johnson
of fifth-generation aircraft. After a from the 514th Flight Test
seven-year engineering and repair Squadron returns to Hill AFB,
effort at the Ogden Air Logistics Utah, on October 11, 2019,
aboard F-22A Raptor 02-4037
Complex, the aircraft undertook ‘TY’ after its first functional
its first post-rebuild functional check flight following rebuild
check flight at Hill Air Force after its accident at Tyndall AFB,
Base, Utah, on October 11, 2019. Florida, on May 31, 2012. A large
area of new skin panelling is
clearly apparent on the upper
D: Sep 26 surface of the fuselage.
N: Mexican Air Force/ USAF/Alex R Lloyd
SEDENA
T: AW109SP GrandNew
S: 1909 ‘DN-1’ D: Oct 3 tail boom and it’s likely that the and was taken to hospital for
Immediately after taking off from N: Mexican Air Force Mi-8 will be a write-off. None of treatment. The base temporarily
Base Aérea Militar No 1 Santa T: Bell 206L-3/4 LongRanger the crew members were injured. stopped F-16 operations following
Lucia for a training flight, this S: 1679 the crash, pending the results of
helicopter fell back to the ground This helicopter was written off D: Oct 7 the subsequent investigation.
from a low altitude and came in a crash in the Tamazula de N/U: US Navy/Training Air Wing 2
down heavily, resulting in extensive Gordiano municipality of Jalisco T: T-45C Goshawk D: Oct 9
damage to the undercarriage. shortly after 1500hrs local time, This aircraft experienced an N/U: USAF/Air Force Research
The crew was uninjured. during narcotics fumigation engine failure and fire, but was Laboratory
operations in the Sierra Madre recovered to a safe landing at T: XQ-58A Valkyrie
D: Sep 28 Occidental. The pilot was killed, Naval Auxiliary Landing Field S: 58-001
N/U: Slovenian Armed but the other three crew members Orange Grove, Texas. The pilot was This experimental UAV sustained
Forces/15. PVL/152. LEESK survived with unspecified injuries. unhurt, but the incident has been unspecified damage upon landing
T: PC-9M Hudournik classified as a Class A mishap. at the Yuma Proving Ground,
While landing at Portorož Airport D: Oct 3 Arizona, following its third test
during an open day event, this N/U: Polish Army Aviation/25 D: Oct 8 flight as part of the Low-Cost
aircraft was damaged when Brygada Kawalerii N/U: US Air Force/52nd Attritable Strike Unmanned Aerial
it overran the runway. No one Powietrznej/1 dywizjon Fighter Wing/480th Fighter System Demonstration programme.
was injured in the incident and lotniczy/1. eskadra Squadron The USAF said the incident was a
local media said that damage śmigłowców T: F-16CM Fighting Falcon result of the XQ-58A being struck
to the aircraft was minimal. T: Mi-8MT During a routine training mission by high surface winds, coupled
S: 6104 from Spangdahlem Air Base, with a malfunction of its provisional
D: Oct 2 While attempting to land at its base Germany, this aircraft declared an flight test recovery system. It was
N/U: US Navy/VX-20 at Leźnica Wielka/Łęczyca during a emergency and crashed shortly not revealed how long it would
T: E-6B Mercury night training flight, this helicopter after 1500hrs in a forested area take to repair the drone, but
During a touch-and-go at Naval hit the ground, rolled over onto near Zemmer, about 9 miles officials said the scheduled fourth
Air Station Patuxent River, its port side and was extensively (15km) north of Trier, Rhineland- flight of the Valkyrie would have
Maryland, the aircraft struck a damaged. The main rotors were Palatinate. The pilot ejected safely to be delayed until the conclusion
bird, which was ingested into destroyed when they severed the but still sustained minor injuries of a safety investigation.
one of the engines, resulting in
damage. The aircraft landed safely
and with no injuries to those on
board, which included a team
from Air Test and Evaluation
Squadron 20 (VX-20) conducting
a system trial. The incident has
been classified as a Class A
mishap, indicating the aircraft
sustained more than US$2m
of damage. However, within a
couple of weeks, the damaged
engine had been replaced and the USAF/Air Force Research Laboratory Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie 58-001 during its first flight on March 5 this year. It was
aircraft was returned to service. damaged on landing during its third flight on October 9. AFRL/Senior Airman Joshua Hoskins
Abbreviations: D: Date N/U: Nationality/Units T: Type S: Serials

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