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An aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has crashed in Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, in North-East Nigeria.
All those on the plane died in the accident, authorities said.The identities of those on board were however yet to be disclosed.

The spokesperson for the Force, Dele Alonge, said in a statement late Saturday night that the aircraft crashed at about 4:23PM Nigerian time due to bad weather.

Mr. Alonge, an Air Commodore, said the F7-Ni fighter jet, with registration number, NAF801, was ‘returning to base from an interdicted mission when it crashed  around Hong, in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State’.

“There was no survival as the pilot of the aircraft lost his life in the unfortunate incident,” Mr. Alonge said.
He emphasised that the crash was due to bad weather and that the aircraft was never under enemy fire.

Five people, including two RAF personnel, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

The Puma Mk2 helicopter crashed as it was landing at Nato's Resolute Support mission headquarters, Kabul. Nato has not released the nationalities of the other victims or the five left injured.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the crash was "an accident and not the result of insurgent activity".

The families of the British victims have been informed, the MoD said.

They have asked for a period of grace before their names are released.

A Chinese air force pilot parachuted to safety from low altitude moments before his fighter aircraft crashed into a hillside, state media reported.

He was taking part in a night training exercise when his aircraft suffered an engine failure, but he managed to steer his fighter away from two nearby residential areas before ejecting from the plane, state television reported.

The aircraft had rapidly fallen from an altitude of 3,000 metres to 1,500 metres before the control tower ordered the pilot to bail out.
The plane crashed into a hill and the pilot, Li Tong, was said to be suffering from spinal injuries after his parachute landing.

Amid fighting between Taliban militants and government security forces in different parts of the conflict-ridden Afghanistan, three helicopters have crashed over the past two days on Sunday and Monday, leaving seven people, including five NATO personnel, dead.

A helicopter of Afghan army crashed in the central Bamyan province Monday afternoon, killing two people aboard and injuring five others, spokesman for Bamyan provincial government Abdul Rahmand Ahmadi said.

Later in the day, two crews of an Afghan army helicopter were injured as their chopper crashed in the eastern Logar province.

This is the third chopper crash in Afghanistan over the past two days.

On Sunday, a helicopter of NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) mission crashed in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing five aboard and injuring five others.

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss army said one of its Boeing F/A-18 jets crashed in France on a training mission on Wednesday, injuring the pilot.

The single-seat aircraft - one of a 31-strong fleet - took off from a Swiss air base in Payerne and came down in an uninhabited area east of the French city of Besancon, the military added.

The defence ministry said it did not know what caused the accident.

I have got a question, in Malaysia, what are the circumstances that would allow for civilians to salute?

what about placing right hand on the heart when saluting flag? Westerners and even Singaporeans do this a lot when facing the flag (when it is raised, lowered especially)

A US Navy pilot has died in an F-18 jet crash in the Fens in Cambridgeshire, close to an RAF base.

The hornet crashed on farm land in Redmere, near Ely, close to the Suffolk border, with the alarm raised at 10:30 BST.

Cambridgeshire Police confirmed the pilot, the only crew member, died.

The aircraft had taken off from RAF Lakenheath, but was not connected to the base.

It crashed four miles from RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.

Amateur aviation enthusiast Roger Smith told BBC Radio Suffolk that the F-18 was one of a group of Hornet Marine Corps planes that were heading back to the US from the Middle East.

They arrived at Lakenheath over the weekend and four of them took off this morning.

A Spanish Air Force helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 280 miles off The Canary Islands at 2 p.m. GMT (4 p.m. Spanish time), the Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a statement e-mailed to journalists on Thursday evening.

Spanish and Moroccan search and rescue aircraft are still looking for the three crew members. The MoD said the three were a captain, a lieutenant and sergeant, who were bringing the helicopter back from Dakar (Senegal), en route to The Canary Islands.

The helicopter's emergency beacon began transmitting when it crashed and Spain launched an F-18 from The Canary Islands to overfly the area. Radio contact was not possible.

A helicopter of the Honduran Air Force crashed while being used in a display of skydiving in La Labor, Ocotepeque. The pilot of the Bell 412 type ship, registration FAH-977, lost control about seven meters after takeoff from becoming entangled in cables for public lighting of a stadium.

Apparently, the aircraft took flight back to Tegucigalpa when the accident happened.The Armed Forces, through a press release, made a description of the incident in which it is stated that the helicopter "presented a mechanical failure during the maneuver takeoff near the community of work, Ocotepeque, forcing the captain aircraft to make a precautionary landing, causing no damage to third parties or loss of life."

At least 12 people have died in a helicopter crash west of the Libyan capital Tripoli, security sources say.
A militia spokesman told the BBC the helicopter was "shot down" in the Al-Maya coastal region, which has seen clashes between rival militias.

The helicopter had been carrying cash for a local bank on the way out and was returning with passengers to Tripoli.
Local media say the dead may include high-ranking militia members. Bank workers were also reportedly on board.

The Danish Defence Command said in a press release that an F-16 fighter jet went down into the North Sea off the coast of the western island of Rømø at around 2.30pm on Tuesday.

The pilot of the jet had to use his ejector seat and was later rescued by a Danish Royal Air Force helicopter. The pilot was not seriously injured in the incident, which Defence Command said was due to faulty landing gear.

“The most important thing for me is that the pilot is in good health. Our pilots are trained for this, but it is an intense experience and he will get all of the support he needs,” Anders Rex, the head of the Fighter Wing Skrydstrup  airbase in southwestern Denmark, said.

A Russian patrol aircraft has spotted the place of landing of both pilots of the MiG-31 [NATO reporting name Foxhound] which had crashed in the country's Far East, the Russian defense Ministry said Saturday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Friday, the Russian military lost contact on Friday with a MiG-31 interceptor, which was carrying out a training mission in Russia's Far East.

"The crew of the [patrol] Il-38 [NATO reporting name May] aircraft has visually recorded the pilots, their parachutes and a signal fire," the ministry said in a statement.

The pilots will be evacuated when the weather conditions improve, according to the ministry.

KAYES: Two people were seriously injured this morning (02/11/2015) following the crash of a military plane in Koussané in the Kayes region. The aircraft had taken off a bit more in the morning in Nioro.

According to preliminary information gathered elements, it would be a Senegalese military plane would have suffered a technical failure during flight. Ten people were on board. The team of civil defense went on site to evacuate the wounded.

AN unmanned Army spyplane has crashed landed at MOD Boscombe Down.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Watchkeeper drone — one of eight currently being tested from the base — suffered extensive damage last night.

The £1.2billion fleet of drones is under testing and it is expected to come into operation in 2017.

Nobody was injured in the incident and an investigation has been launched.

An Army spokesman said: "I can confirm that on November 2 an Army Watchkeeper unmanned aerial system was involved in an incident on landing at Boscombe down airfield.

"A comprehensive investigation will be completed by the Defence safety Authority [the Military Aviation Authority], therefore, it would be inappropriate to offer any additional comment at this point."

The drone was on a routine training exercise. In operation the planes, which are radio controlled from the ground, can stay in the air continuously for 16 hours offering surveillance and reconnaissance for troops.

Rebels shot down a Syrian government warplane with anti-aircraft fire on Wednesday in the western province of Hama, forcing its pilot to eject, a monitoring group and an insurgent media spokesman said.

The pilot died after his parachute failed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Rebels have brought down government aircraft before in Syria's civil war but only rarely as they lack significant anti-aircraft capability. They have stepped up calls to be supplied with anti-aircraft missiles since Russia's air force intervened on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the conflict.

The Syrian air force jet was downed in northwest Hama, near the town of Kafr Nabuda, where fighting has been raging between insurgents and government forces backed by air cover.

Rebels had late on Tuesday taken over Tel Othman, a hill nearby, said the Observatory, which monitors Syria's civil war using a network of sources on the ground.

A media spokesman for a rebel group operating in the area under the banner of the Free Syrian Army said it had shot the plane down.

"We targeted the (Russian-built) MiG aircraft while it was striking rebel positions on the front of Kafr Nabuda. We shot at it with our medium machine guns," Yasser Shehadeh of the al-Wosta division told Reuters via Internet messaging.

"One of the shots hit the plane, and we saw smoke coming out of it, then it crashed... near a regime-held area... we don't know about the fate of the pilot, but he probably got killed."

what model? 21 as shown in pic or? 

A Czech military helicopter with 11 soldiers and five crew members on its board crashed during a NATO training in Spain Thursday, causing five injuries, but no fatalities, the Defence Ministry has said in a press release.

The five injured men were hospitalised, but their lives are not endangered, the press release said.

Spanish papers have written that the helicopter crashed while landing.

The accident occurred during the Trident Juncture training about 15 kilometres to the southeast of Zaragoza.

One crew member and four soldiers suffered the injuries.

The helicopter and its crew are from the 22nd helicopter base in Namest nad Oslavou, south Moravia, and the transported soldiers from a special forces unit.

On Friday, a Defence Ministry commission for the investigation into accidents will fly to the scene of the accident.

NSFA, Panacan, Davao City- A Philippine Air Force Helicopter on casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) mission to the soldiers of 73rd Infantry Battalion
(73rd IB), 10th Infantry Division, Philippine Army crash landed in Sitio Lamsalo, Brgy. Upper Suyan, Malapatan, Sarangani Province at 9:40 a.m., November 7, 2015. There were prevailing strong winds when the said helicopter was landing. The nine personnel (pilots, crew and soldiers) onboard said helicopter suffered slight injuries and were already secured.

Eastern Mindanao Command Commander Lt. Gen. Aurelio B. Baladad has dispatched additional helicopters from the Tactical Operations Group XI, to augment the ongoing CASEVAC and rescue operations to the soldiers of 73rd IB.