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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]
2. On 27 January 2020, a United States Air Force Bombardier Global Express E-11A aircraft crashed in Afghanistan's Dih Yak District, Ghazni Province. Two people on board were killed, who comprised the entire crew, according to U.S. military sources. With the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, this was the last ...
7. Survivors. 0. National Airlines Flight 102 (N8102/NCR102) was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, with a refueling stop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. On 29 April 2013, the Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed within the perimeter ...
News of the crash broke out the following morning after locals reported the incident to provincial officials of Badakhshan. [5] The Taliban's chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that rescue teams from the Afghan Air Force were searching the area. One of the survivors, nurse Igor Syvorotkin, who suffered minor injuries in the accident ...
0. On 2 September 2006, a Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Nimrod suffered an in-flight fire and subsequently crashed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing all fourteen crew members on board. The crash, which occurred during a reconnaissance flight, was the biggest single loss of life suffered by the British military since the Falklands War.
September 26, 1992: C-130H 911 of the Nigerian Air Force crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, three engines failed, high take-off weight. All 158 people on board were killed, including eight foreign nationals. This crash is the deadliest involving the Lockheed C-130.
1 U.S. Air Force Combat Controller from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron; 7 Afghan National Army Commandos, part of the Afghan National Army; 1 Afghan civilian interpreter; 1 U.S. Military Working Dog (Bart) The 30 American deaths represent the greatest loss of U.S. military lives in a single incident in the war in Afghanistan that began in ...
May 3, 2013 – Three US Air Force crew members were killed when their KC-135R crashed in Kyrgyzstan while on a combat air refueling mission to Afghanistan. May 4, 2013 – Seven U.S. service members were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. [28] November 27, 2018 - Three U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan blast. [29]