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  2. List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in ...

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    July 20: A British Royal Air Force GR4 Tornado fighter jet crashed at Kandahar air base during takeoff at 7:20 a.m. The two pilots were injured after ejecting from the aircraft. [144] July 18: A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet crashed in central Afghanistan, killing the two crew members. [145]

  3. List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War

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    6 April 1986 – An Su-25 strike jet was shot down by a Pakistan Air Force F-16, pilot Alexander Rutskoy safely ejects. 18 April 1986 – An Su-25 strike jet was shot down. 21 April 1986 – An Mi-8 transport helicopter was shot down, killing two. 2 May 1986 – An Mi-24 assault helicopter was shot down.

  4. List of aircraft shootdowns - Wikipedia

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    (2) 10 November 1997 – A Sri Lanka Air Force Mi-24 was shot down killing two and a Mil Mi-17 crashed landed after being hit. [132] 7 January 1998 – A Sri Lanka Air Force Mil Mi-17 was hit with an RPG and mortars and was destroyed. [132] 26 June 1998 – A Sri Lanka Air Force Mi-24 was shot down south of Vavuniya killing four. [132]

  5. Afghan refugee in fatal training flight crash in Independence ...

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    A former Afghan Air Force pilot training for a commercial license ignored his flight instructor's advice to not return to the Independence State Airport because of low visibility earlier in December.

  6. Men who died in Oregon small plane crash were Afghan Air ...

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    Three men who died in a small plane crash in Oregon were Afghan Air Force pilots who fought with the American military and came to the U.S. as refugees after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in ...

  7. Special Report-Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S ...

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    Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's ...

  8. Pakistan–Soviet air confrontations - Wikipedia

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    On 29 April 1986, the Afghan Air Force claimed to have shot down a Pakistani Air Force F-16 fighter jet after two jets intruded Afghanistan's airspace and crossed into Paktia Province, more specifically into Khost. Afghan authorities claimed that the F-16s were warned and then fired upon, whereas Pakistani authorities claimed they never ...

  9. 2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown - Wikipedia

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    On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.