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On 30 January 2005 a Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130K Hercules C1, serial number XV179, callsign Hilton 22, was shot down in Iraq, probably by Sunni insurgents, killing all 10 personnel on board. 2006 2 September 2006 - XV230 , Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 of No. 120 Squadron explodes over Afghanistan whilst supporting NATO operations, killing all ...
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving Royal Air Force aircraft" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan; List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War; List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Libyan Civil War (2011)
The Casualty Branch of the Royal Air Force was established upon the outbreak of war in September 1939. [2] Within the Casualty Branch, a separate office called the Missing Research Section (MRS) was established in January 1942, which had to operate from within offices in the United Kingdom until D-Day, when the MRES became an official entity. [3]
A Royal Jordanian Air Force Bell AH-1F Cobra helicopter was destroyed in an accident in Al-Baqa'a near Abu Nseir, Jordan. One of the pilots died and the other was injured. [253] [254] 20 June A Royal Canadian Air Force CH-147F, carrying four crew members, crashed during a training flight into the Ottawa River. Two crew members died and the ...
On 4 October 1954 a Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor collided with a USAF North American F-86 Sabre near RAF Wattisham, Suffolk. On 28 November 1954 two Royal Air Force de Havilland Venoms collided near Hamble. [6] 1955. On 3 March 1955 a Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor collided with a Royal Navy de Havilland Sea Vampire near Paines Wood, Sussex. [6]
A Royal Thai Air Force Saab JAS 39C Gripen crashes during an air show for the Children's Day Airshow in Hat Yai, Songkhla province, Thailand. Sqn Ldr Dilokrit Pattavee was killed when the aircraft crashed on a runway at Wing 56 during the air show at around 9.20 am.
This is a complete list of memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. [1]The primary memorial at the arboretum is the Armed Forces Memorial which lists all British military casualties since 1948.