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A Mikoyan Mig-21UM fighter jet of the Croatian Air Force crashed near Slatina in Croatia. The two pilots ejected from the plane and landed safely. [180] [181] 13 December. An Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet of the Italian Air Force crashed near Locogrande, north of Marsala in Sicily. The sole pilot on board died in the accident. [182] 15 December
In January a F-16 fighter jet crashed into the sea while taking part in training exercises. Combat training for Taiwan's F-16 fleet was suspended in the aftermath of the crash. [17] On 14 March a Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashed into the sea after a mechanical problem while on a training mission from Chihhang Air Base. [18]
The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8II interceptor on April 1, 2001. The EP-3 was flying over the South China ...
Two Taiwanese fighter jets crashed on Monday in the third such incident in the past half year, at a time when the Beijing-claimed island's armed forces are under increasing pressure to intercept ...
Disaster was averted Sunday after a fighter jet from a Michigan air show crashed near an apartment building, with only two injuries reported. During the Yankee Air Museum’s Thunder Over Michigan ...
(Bloomberg) -- A Taiwanese air force trainer jet crashed, killing its pilot, hours after scores of Chinese warplanes flew close to the island, highlighting concerns about its aging military fleet ...
Southern Min. Hokkien POJ. Tiong-huâ Bîn-kok Khong-kun. The Republic of China Air Force ( ROCAF; known historically as the Chinese Air Force[ 4 ] and colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based in Taiwan since 1947. The ROCAF was founded in 1920 by the Kuomintang.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's military said on Wednesday it sent fighter jets to monitor and warn a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft that flew over the sensitive Taiwan Strait, a mission that took place ...