An Air Force F-16C fighter jet crashed on Tuesday at the airport in Lake Havasu, Arizona, while attempting land.

The pilot was able to eject and is in good condition, the Air Force said.

"An F-16C assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing diverted and attempted to land at Lake Havasu City Municipal Airport, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, at approximately 10:35 a.m. today during a routine training flight," read a statement from Luke Air Force Base.

The base is located 15 miles south of Phoenix.

"During landing the aircraft departed the prepared surface and the pilot ejected from the aircraft," the statement continued. "The pilot is in good condition and is being transported to Havasu Regional Medical Center."

"First responders are on site and there is no immediate danger to the public," the statement added.

Earlier, Terrie Has, of the Lake Havasu City Fire Department, had told ABC affiliate KNXV that a military plane had crashed at the airport and that the pilot was ambulatory after ejecting from the aircraft.

The preparations for the 41 years anniversary celebrations for Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Day turned fatal after their fighter jet crashed and one pilot died.

The incident happened between Gaborone Golf Club and Cricket Club in the afternoon. It is believed that the pilot lost control during rehearsal.

Statement from BDF

The Botswana Defence Force informs the public of an unfortunate incident in which a pilot lost his life in a BF5 fighter aircraft crash which occurred at Gaborone Golf Course today at around 1145hrs during the BDF Day celebration rehearsals.

Names of the deceased are

still withheld until his next of kin have been informed. The BDF requests the public tho accord the family and friends the privacy they deserve to mourn their loved one.

As a matter of urgency the Commander has directed the appointment of an investigation team to examine the cause of the crash.

At this difficult time our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - An Indian navy Il-38 anti-submarine warfare aircraft that experienced failure to lower the front landing gear will attempt an emergency landing at the Zhukovsky airport outside Moscow at approximately 08.00 p.m. Moscow time (05:00 p.m. GMT), a source in the Russian aircraft manufacturing industry told Sputnik.

"The aircraft will attempt to land at about 08.00 pm, it is trying to burn fuel now," the source said.

According to the Ilyushin company press service, the plane belongs to the Indian navy, there are experienced Ilyushin test pilots on board, said.

"At present, the Il-38 plane of the Indian navy is preparing for an emergency landing in Zhukovsky. All rescue services have been warned, preparatory work is being carried out. Experienced Ilyushin test pilots are on board," the press service said in a statement.

The press service specified that no one was injured and no fire erupted as a result of the accident.

"The IL-38 successfully landed with the unlowered front landing gear. Firefighters are nearby, there is no fire," the press service said in a statement.

A military cargo plane has crashed in Savannah, Georgia, off a highway near the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.

It is unclear at this time how many people were on board and if there are any injuries or deaths when the plane crashed around 11:30am local time, the Savannah Fire Department said.

Chatham Emergency Management said the crash occurred near the intersection of Highway 21 and Crossgate Road. There has been no impact to airport operations at this time, authorities confirmed via Twitter.

Roads surrounding the scene have been closed and the public is advised to stay away from the area as large plumes of smoke are being released from the crashed plane.

It is not yet known what kind of cargo the plane was carrying or the path on which the flight was travelling at the time.

The plane belonged to the US Air Force's Air National Guard 165th Airlift Wing, based in Savannah. Public affairs personnel confirmed the crash but have not responded immediately to a request for more details.

A Russian military jet has crashed off the coast of Syria’s Latakia, killing two pilots on board, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.

On Thursday morning, a Russian Su-30SM went down in the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Khmeimim Airbase.

Pilots “fought to take the aircraft under control till the last minute,” the Russian Defense ministry said. Both of them died as the result of the incident.

The crash may have been caused by a bird hitting the engine, the ministry said, citing preliminary data. The aircraft did not come under fire.

BRASILIA, May 5 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA said on Saturday that a prototype of the KC-390 medium-sized military aircraft went off the runway in a test on Saturday, but no crew members were injured.

The prototype was performing a ground-level test in the town of Gavião Peixoto in Sao Paulo state, Embraer said in a statement.

The incident was under investigation and has been reported to the Brazilian Air Force’s center on accidents, the planemaker said.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on damages to the aircraft or whether the incident could delay to its entry into service.

Embraer has already recorded one other incident in October that damaged the prototype, putting it out of service until January.

The planemaker said that incident would not affect the certification schedule of the KC-390, which is slated to enter service with the Brazilian Air Force in 2018. (Reporting by Jake Spring; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

A Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter has crashed during a routine flight in eastern Syria, both its pilots were killed during the incident, Russia’s Defence Ministry has said.

That was reported by TASS.

The incident took place during a routine flight. Two pilots reportedly died. The bodies of both pilots already found and delivered to the Khmeimim air base.

“Russian Ka-52 helicopter has crashed during a routine flight over eastern regions of the Syrian Arab Republic. Both pilots were killed,” the Ministry said.

According to the preliminary data the crash was caused by a malfunction of the machine,  the Russian military said.

The Ka-52 Alligator is an armed helicopter designed to conduct anti-ground missions and reconnaissance flights.

TAK — An air force officer died after ejecting from his plane Tuesday while his co-pilot survived the impact.

Squadron Leader Kroekkiat Suwanno, 36, was found hanging from his parachute in a tree after his jet crashed onto the Bhumibol Dam Golf Course in the Sam Ngao district of Tak province. His co-pilot, Group Capt. Jirasak Namwongtri, 42, survived.

Rescue workers had to use a crane to retrieve Kroekkiat’s body.

Jirasak was found near the crash still in a pilot’s seat and rushed to the hospital in critical condition. His condition has since improved to stable.

Kroekkiat and Jirasak had been flying a Czech-made Aero L-39 Albatros training jet from the Wing 41 airbase in Chiang Mai down to Tak.

Witnesses saw the plane come down onto the golf course, followed by a large fire that made a big column of black smoke.

A U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon supersonic training jet crashed Wednesday morning in Mississippi.

Both pilots were able to eject safely and are being medically evaluated, according to officials.

The crash took place in the morning outside Columbus Air Force Base.

The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.

The Northrop T-38 was the world’s first supersonic jet trainer and is the most-produced.

Earlier this month, a military C-130 Hercules transport plane from the Puerto Rico National Guard crashed near a Savannah airport while performing a training mission. All nine people on board were killed.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is scheduled to give the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement address today in Colorado Springs.

A Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) carrying two passengers and two aircrews crashlanded during a routine sortie from Jammu to Natha Top at 9:50 am today. Reports say that all aircrew and passengers are safe. All the concerned authorities are monitoring the situation and a court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident. While an investigation is still underway, the cause of the accident is not known yet. The passengers and crew members were rescued by the concerned authorities.

Previously in April, in another such accident, an IAF helicopter crashed near the Himalayan shrine in Kedarnath. The MI-17 helicopter was carrying 6 people including the crew when it crashed while landing at the helipad in Kedarnath. The chopper was also carrying heavy mechanical equipment from Guptkashi to Kedarnath for reconstruction work there.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Brazilian Air Force said on Thursday that one of its F-5F fighter aircraft had crashed near the Santa Cruz air base, located in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area.

"The F-5F fighter jet of the Brazilian Air Force crashed at 07:40 a.m. [10:40 GMT] on May 24 after it had taken off [the Santa Cruz base] in Rio de Janeiro.

The pilots managed to eject from the aircraft," the Air Force said on Twitter.

​Investigators have arrived at the scene of the accident to probe the reason of the crash, the Brazilian Air Force added.

SANAA (Sputnik) - Yemen’s Houthi rebels have downed Saudi Arabia’s military helicopter in Jizan province in the south-west of the kingdom, a military source in the Yemeni Defense Ministry told Sputnik on Thursday, adding that all crew members have been killed in the crash.

"Air defense of Ansar Allah [Houthi movement] has downed an Apache helicopter of the Saudi army while it was flying over Jahfan in Jizan [province]," the source said.

All crew members have been killed in the crash, according to the source.

Riyadh has not commented on the issue yet.

Algerian television channels say eight crew members have been injured after a military aircraft overshot the runway upon landing at Biskra Airport.

Private news channels Ennahar and Dzair News are showing images of the plane, a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, cut in half near the airport, which is 450km south of Algiers, the capital.

No other details have been disclosed about Sunday's accident.

In April, an Algerian military transport plane crashed just after takeoff in Boufarik, south of Algiers, killing 257 people in the North African nation's worst-ever aviation disaster.

An F7 fighter jet belonging to the Iranian Army has reportedly crashed in the central province of Isfahan.

The plane has crashed near the city of Hassanabad in Jarqavieh Olya district, Isfahan province.

The two pilots on board had ejected before the crash, and were found alive near the crash scene.

According to local governor Hossein Behzadfar, the trainer jet’s pilots have been transferred to a hospital in Isfahan.

A lightning strike over Chicago prompted an in-flight emergency aboard a military plane on Wednesday afternoon, prompting emergency vehicles to surround the aircraft after it made a smokey landing at Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport, officials said.

A WISN 12 NEWS photographer who was on scene said he heard "multiple explosions" as the KC-135 aircraft came in for a landing.

Two tires that were blown during the landing needed to be replaced on the runway before the plane could be moved to the Wisconsin Air National Guard's 128th Air Refueling Wing.

No one was injured.

The work temporarily closed the airport to inbound and outbound flights. The airport reopened just after 4 p.m.

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a military aerial refueling aircraft.

The F-16 flown by a seasoned fighter pilot disappeared from radar at 1:43 pm on June 4, remains of the aircraft have been discovered in mountains of New Taipei

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – During flight exercises on Monday, June 4, a Taiwanese fighter pilot flying an F-16 crashed in the mountains of northern Taiwan.

An F-16 fighter that took off from an air force base near in Hualien at 1:19 p.m. disappeared from radar at 1:43 p.m.

The remains of the jet, piloted by Major Wu Yanting(吳彥霆), have reportedly been discovered scattered around Wufen Mountain (五分山) in New Taipei City, close to Keelung.

After the radar signal was lost, a search party was immediately organized and dispatched to search the high altitude mountainous region.

Parts of the single seat fighter were first discovered and confirmed as approximately 2:39 in the afternoon, reports CNA.

Some pieces of the aircraft have been located, and a search is being conducted to find all of the components and the pilot.

The range of the search area will cover 21 square miles, according to sources from the Ministry of National Defense.

The Air Officer Commanding of the Indian Air Force base in Gujarat's Jamnagar was killed Tuesday in a fighter plane crash in the state's northwestern region.

The Jaguar fighter took off from Jamnagar and crashed in the Mundra taluk of Kutch district. Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan suffered fatal injuries.

Photos of the crash site showed debris scattered over a wide area.

A Court of Inquiry will now investigate the cause of the accident.

Other aircraft operated by the IAF have been involved in crashes this year.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. military F15 fighter jet crashed in waters off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, where the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan are based, during a routine training mission on Monday, U.S. Forces Japan said in a statement.

The pilot, the only person in the aircraft, ejected successfully and was recovered by search and rescue crews, the statement said. A board of officers would investigate the incident, it said.

Many residents of Okinawa associate the U.S. military bases with crime, accidents and pollution and want them moved off the island. A series of emergency landings and parts falling from U.S. military aircraft have highlighted safety concerns.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is moving ahead with a contentious plan to relocate the U.S. Marines’ Futenma airbase from an urban area in central Okinawa to the less populated Henoko district of Nago city in the island’s north.

SOFIA (Reuters) - A Bulgarian military helicopter crashed at an air base near the southern city of Plovdiv during a routine exercise late on Monday, killing the two pilots and injuring a crew member, the defense ministry said on Monday.

The Russian-made Mi-17 was around 50 meters above the Krumovo base when it fell at about 8.30 pm local time (1730 GMT), the ministry said, adding it was investigating.

Last July, a military helicopter crashed into the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast during tactical drills, killing an officer and injuring two others.

An F-35B that erupted into flames caused by a faulty bracket nearly two years ago has been struck by the Marine Corps, making it the first loss of an F-35 for the Corps.

The Corps made the determination that the costs to repair the costly high-tech fighter would not be worth the return on investment.

However, the Marines have not put out an official strike message for the F-35B because the Corps has not decided whether the aircraft will be used as a trainer for maintenance or a museum centerpiece.

“With the specific F-35B involved in this discussion, the Marine Corps’ cost-benefit analysis determined the repair costs would not yield a sufficient ROI [return on investment] to justify the expenses,” Capt. Christopher Harrison, a Marine spokesman, told Marine Corps Times. “The decision was made to strike the F-35B; however, there has not yet been a strike message as the disposition decision has not yet been made.”

On Oct. 27, 2016, a fire broke out mid-air on F-35B forcing the pilot to land at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina.