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The two Kfirs from No. 10 Squadron were conducting final rehearsals for the flypast scheduled for the next day, as part of the SLAF's 60th-anniversary celebrations, with their routine involving a low-flying circuit over the SLAF base at Ratmalana before returning to Katunayake on 01 March 2011, when they collided at 9.30 am (local time).
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Since the J79 turbojet engine is an U.S. design, although manufactured under license in Israel, all export sales of the Kfir are subject to prior approval being granted by the U.S. State Department, a fact that has limited the sale of the Kfir to foreign nations. As of 2006, the IAI Kfir has been exported to Colombia, Ecuador, and Sri Lanka.
21 January 1997: a IAI Kfir crashed into the Negombo lagoon. Pilot ejected safely. 21 February 1997: a Antonov An-32B crashed at Ratmalana airport following aborted take-off, killing four. [ASN 5] [5] 15 March 1997: a FMA IA 58 Pucará crashed in the Kaudala area following a premature explosion of ordinance on release. Pilot ejected and was ...
Two SLAF IAI Kfir: Yakkala, Gampaha, Sri Lanka: June 23, 2014: 2: 1 Learjet 35A / Eurofighter Typhoon: Olsberg, Germany: November 25, 2019: 13: 0 French Armed Forces Eurocopter Tiger / Eurocopter AS532 Cougar: Ménaka, Ménaka Region, Mali: November 12, 2022: 6: 0 B-17 Flying Fortress / Bell P-63 Kingcobra: Dallas, Texas, U.S. April 27, 2023: 3 ...
An Iraqi Army Bell IA-407 crashes near Amiriyat Al-Fallujah possibly caused by an Islamic State machine gun, killing two. [251] 26 February Royal Malaysian Air Force IPTN/CASA CN-235M-VIP M44-07, c/n N.055, crashes into shallow water off Kuala Selangor and catches fire, eight crew members survive but a local fishermen drowns trying to help. [251]
A small private jet crashed in woods and burned Sunday afternoon near a small airport in rural Virginia, killing all five people aboard, police said. The twin-engine IAI Astra 1125 went down amid ...
April 12, 1971, a Jet Provost of the Royal Ceylon Air Force crashed in Trincomalee killing its pilot. [6] [4]November 15, 1978, the Icelandic Airlines Flight 001 a Douglas DC-8 crash on approach to Colombo International Airport, killed 8 of the 13 Icelandic crew members, 5 reserve crew members and 170 (mostly Indonesian) out of a total of 262 passengers and crew.