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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]
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.
(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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.