All four crewmen were injured when their Vietnam-era Huey helicopter crash-landed at a special forces base in Narathiwat province on Friday morning as it arrived to pick up two senior officers for an inspection flight.

The UH-1H is from the army's helicopter division in Lop Buri. It crash-landed at the Narathiwat special unit base in Muang Narathiwat district about 8.30am.

Officials said the hydraulic system broke down and the helicopter spiralled rapidly to the ground, where it exploded and caught fire.

The blaze was quickly extinguished. The four crew all escaped with minor injuries.

The Syrian military on Sunday said one of its war planes had been downed in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor during an operation against Islamic state, where the militant group has been under intense air strikes in the past 24 hours.

The jet came down in the Jebel Tharda area which overlooks the government's Deir al Zor military airport, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year, said.

On Saturday U.S.-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in Jebel Tharda, endangering a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated.

A Syrian military statement said the plane had come down during an operation against Islamic State in Deir al-Zor and the pilot had died.

Islamic State-affiliated media said it had shot the jet down.

Lockheed TU-2S spy plane has crashed in Sutter County.

The crash happened shortly after takeoff at around 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The Air Force and Beale Air Force Base have both confirmed the crash and that two pilots ejected. Their condition is unknown.

The aircraft was assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air Force Base and was on a training mission, officials said.

Witnesses told KCRA’s Mike Luery that they saw two parachutes carrying people and a third carrying equipment.

The incident is under investigation. No additional information has been released.

Two army pilots were killed in a helicopter crash that took place on Monday afternoon near El-Sheikh Gebyeel military airport in Abi Hamad located in Al-Sharqeya governorate, the army’s media office told Daily News Egypt.

“The crash killed two pilots, according to what we know so far, and ambulances and security personnel moved directly to the site of the crash to investigate the matter. The crash may be the result of a technical failure inside the helicopter,” the army’s media office clarified Monday.

Regarding details about the helicopter and the identity of the two pilots, the army’s media office noted that an official statement will be issued on the incident soon.

CNN Greece reported that an apache helicopter went down in Northern Greece on Tuesday morning.

The helicopter was involved in a military exercise called SARISA 2016 and crashed in the  sea region of Vrasna, Thessaloniki at around 9am.

CNN Greece reported that the two pilots managed to survive the crash.

SARISA 2016, in cooperation with US forces, began on Monday and was scheduled to continue until Friday.

A trailer was released to preview SARISA 2016 on YouTube.

There has been no comment from Greek authorities if the military exercise will continue or not after Tuesday’s incident.

A Mig-21 aircraft of Indian Air Force today overshot the runway of Srinagar airport while landing.

The aircraft was damaged in the accident. However, the pilot was evacuated safely.

The runway has been closed at the airport for the time being.  All  flight operations have also been cancelled for now.

A military chopper has gone down in eastern Libya, with all the eight people on board reported dead.

On Tuesday, Colonel Ahmed al-Mesmari, the spokesman for Libya’s armed forces told Libyan news website Alwasat that the army helicopter crashed in an area 40 kilometers west of the city of Tobruk,early in the morning.

There have been conflicting reports of the number of those on board and the fatalities. The cause of the crash also remains unknown.

Mesmari said the head of the office of the Libyan armed forces’ commander in chief, Idris Younis, three crew members and four other people, who he did not identify, were abroad the ill-fated chopper.

According to the army official, the helicopter was returning from the town of Ra’s Lanuf to Tobruk.

The spokesman said no further information is available on the chopper yet, adding that a search operation is underway.

A fighter jet belonging to the U.S. military crashed off Japan’s Okinawa island, where the military has bases, Japanese media reported Thursday.

The plane was reported to be an AV8B Harrier II ground attack aircraft.

NHK cited Japan’s defense ministry as saying the jet crashed Thursday afternoon local time (early morning EDT Thursday), but the exact time of the incident was not known.

According to the Okinawa Times, Japanese coastguard sent a helicopter and a patrol boat to search for the plane that went down into the sea east of Okinawa shortly after taking off.

A South Korean military chopper involved in a joint military drill with U.S. Navy has crashed in waters off the nation's east coast Monday night.

The Lynx combat helicopter carrying three pilots on board disappeared from radar at 8:57 p.m., eight minutes after takeoff, after sending a distress call.

The exact cause of the crash has not been confirmed yet.

A search for the missing chopper by S. Korean and U.S. Navy is underway.

A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) crashed near Mianwali, on Monday.

A spokesman from Air force has confirmed that the PAF UAV jet was on its routine training mission when the crash happened.

The spokesperson has also confirmed that no loss of life or property has been reported, yet.

Air Headquarters, Islamabad has already set up a board of inquiry to determine the cause of the crash.

A military helicopter crashed in the central Swiss Alps on Wednesday, killing two pilots and injuring a flight assistant.

The head of the Swiss Air Force, Aldo Schellenberg said the incident occurred when a Super Puma helicopter crashed onto the Gotthard pass road at midday.

"I'm deeply shocked," Schellenberg told a news conference in Bern.

The helicopter crashed shortly after take-off close to a hotel, the St Gotthard Hospice. It had flown a delegation of four French army officers and Swiss officials to the area.

They were part of a regular two-day mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation un Europe (OSCE) inspecting Swiss army installations.

The air force declined to give any further information, saying an investigation into the cause of the crash is underway. André Blattmann, head of the armed forces, said the helicopter had apparently hit a power cable.

Defence Minister Guy Parmelin visited the crash site, telling the Swiss public news agency SDA: "This is a new drama for the defence ministry." He was referring also to a crash of a military jet last month.

The Gotthard pass is a mountain road at 2,108 metres above sea level.

A Kenya Airforce plane crashed on Friday noon at Eldas in Wajir County.

The plane, KAF Puma Helicopter 415, was on its way to a recruitment exercise.

According to media reports, those on board escaped with minor injuries. The cause of the crash is yet to be established.

The Chinese internet is circulating a photo purported to be a J-10 crash near Yangcun on Sept. 28.

The base is home to the 24th Fighter Division and it is unknown if the mishap aircraft is with the 72th Air Regiment or August 1st aerobatic team.

The pilot is said to have ejected safely. Cause of the crash was engine failure due to bird strike.

A Nuri helicopter owned by the Royal Malaysian Air Force which was carrying 14 personnel landed on the roof of a Living Skills centre during an emergency landing at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Balung, today.

No fatalities have been reported and the 14 injured personnel are being treated at Tawau Hospital.

Tawau Fire and Rescue senior assistant superintendent Sahidi Mahali said five students were also injured in the 9.45am incident.

He said the department was gathering further information on the case.

Bernama learnt that the helicopter had earlier tried to land on the field of the school.

One of the helicopter's rotor blades was flung about 200 metres away from the scene.

Meanwhile, the RMAF in a statement said the helicopter which was carrying 14 personnel left its base here at 7.35am for routine flight training.

"The crew and passengers are all safe," it said.

According to the statement, RMAF has sent a rescue team to the location and cordoned off the area before taking steps to bring out the helicopter.

"RMAF will form an investigation team on the cause of the incident," it said.

An Indian Air Force Jaguar aircraft crashed in Pokhran area of Rajasthan on Monday after both the pilots had ejected safely.

On a routine training sortie, the jet took off from Jaisalmer and crashed in the area near the India-Pakistan border at around 1.45 pm.

According to IAF sources, the trainer aircraft crashed following a technical snag.

A court of inquiry (CoI) has been ordered, defence spokesperson Lt Col Manish Ojha said.

The Jaguars are deep strike fighter planes, capable of carrying nuclear payload.

TEL AVIV — Israel lost one of its front line F-16I fighters on Wednesday and the pilot died following a strike mission in Gaza, said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman.

According to Lerner, the pilot and navigator were returning to their home base southwest of Beersheba around 5 p.m. when, “for some reason, they felt the need to eject.”

The pilot's death was killed as a result of the ejection while the navigator suffered only light injuries.

As of 10 p.m. on Wednesday, the Israeli military could not say whether a technical malfunction or human error was to blame for the Class A mishap.

However, in an indication that human error was to blame, Lerner said the Air Force did not plan to ground the F-16I fleet pending the ongoing investigation.

“We have no specifics yet to offer. It happened while they were landing. … An inquiry is ongoing to review the circumstances,” Lerner told Defense News.

The lost fighter was part of a considerable force package dispatched Wednesday in response to a Gaza-launched rocket that landed in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. The launch marked the second such attack on Sderot in two months, and — while only two people were treated for shock and no physical injuries were sustained — the rocket landed very close to a school where children were in their classrooms.

According to information published in the Guinean media, a small Tertras type of plane is crashed on the military base in Conakry airport.
 
The accident killed two people including a young Guinean pilot and a French national. The causes of the accident are not yet known.

The Guinean Defence Minister Mohamed Diané said on his Facebook page: "Following the accident of the airplane of military surveillance that occurred this morning at Conakry airport, I present on behalf of President Alpha Condé my deepest condolences to the families of two victims. "

The head of the national defense department announced the establishment of a crisis and begin investigations to determine the causes of this tragedy.

An Afghan air force helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least seven people on board, said Afghan Defence Ministry officials who described the crash as an accident.

Four crew members and three soldiers were among the those killed in the crash of the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter, said Defence Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri.

"An Afghan army helicopter crashed in northern Baghlan province due to some technical problem," he said. "An investigation is under way."

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid however claimed the Islamist group's fighters had shot down the helicopter, saying the aircraft had been trying to resupply an Afghan government checkpoint that was surrounded by insurgents.