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On November 24, 1960, Royal Afghan Air Force pilot Abdus Samad Fazli defected by flying his Piper Cub across the border to Pakistan. [1]On February 26, 1981, Afghan Air Force pilot Captain Jamal ud Din defected with his crew to Pakistan on board a Mil Mi-8T helicopter numbered 285, during post-maintenance flight test from Kandahar Air Base.
Viktor Belenko's military ID. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко; February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Russian-born American aerospace engineer and Soviet pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan.
Chuguyevka Air Base Japan Air Self Defense Force F-4EJs of 302 Squadron. On September 6, 1976, Belenko and several other pilots from his squadron of the Soviet Air Defense Force took off from Chuguyevka Air Base around 190 km (120 mi) from Vladivostok on a training flight. Belenko followed the flight plan at first, climbing before descending ...
Military officials say they have solved the mystery of a pilot who disappeared while flying over Vietnam during a mission in 1967. Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was ...
A U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejected on Monday before his F-16 fighter jet crashed into the sea off South Korea’s southwestern coast, U.S. and South Korean military officials said. The ...
The training, reinstated as of Monday, was pulled on Jan. 23, Air Force Air Education and Training Command commander Lt. Gen. Brian S. Robinson confirmed to USA TODAY.
Pilot 1986 Former pilot for the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Akbar Rafsanjani; assassinated in Hamburg, West Germany, in 1987 [10] Iraj Fazeli: Pilot 1983 Due to his opposition to the Iranian regime, he first flew to Van in Turkey in a Northrop F-5 (the plane returned a week later). He later went to the U.S. before disappearing there in 1989.
According to intelligence reports that they received, dissatisfaction within the Soviet Air Force, even to the extent of some desertions by disgruntled pilots, led to the promising belief of possible future defections by some pilots. The plan set forth an offer of $100,000 (equivalent to $1,093,781 in 2022) for a Soviet MiG-15 and political ...