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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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 ...
On 3 October 1999, a Su-25 flying a reconnaissance mission over the village of Tolstoy-Yurt was hit by a missile and shot down, killing the pilot. On 9 September 1999, a Su-25 from the 960th Air Assault Regiment was struck in the fuel line by ground fire, possibly by a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile causing the pilot to eject and crash.