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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. 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.

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

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    29 January 1985 – An Mi-8 transport helicopter was shot down shortly after taking off from Kandahar, en route to Kabul, killing one crew member. 13 February 1985 – An Su-25 strike jet was shot down, killing its pilot. 11 March 1985 – An An-30 transport plane was struck in the left engine by ground fire, causing a fire that began to spread.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Afghan Air Force (1978–1992) - Wikipedia

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    The Afghan Air Force (Pashto: افغان هوايي ځواک, Persian: قوای هوایی افغانستان), officially known as the Afghan Air Force and Air Defense and sometimes referred to as the DRA Air Force or DRAAF, [1] was the aerial warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces from 1978 until the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in April 1992.

  9. List of aircraft shootdowns - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...