An Indian Air Force "Jaguar" fighter crashed in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, in the north of India, the Times of India reports.

The jet was on a routine mission from Gorakhpur. The pilot manged to eject safely, according to reports.

"This morning, a Jaguar aircraft crashed while on a routine mission from Gorakhpur. The pilot ejected safely. A court of inquiry has been ordered to investigate the accident," the Indian Air Force said a statement.

There is no information about the cause of the crash yet.

Egyptian military officials have denied some Russian media claim that Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft crashed.

On 29 January, some Russian media claimed, with reference to Egypt source, that a Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft of Egypt Air Force has crashed during a routine training mission.

Later Egyptian military officials categorically denied Russian media reports and stated a possible provocation against the background of the started phase of negotiations on the purchase of an additional 12 Rafale fighter jets for Egypt’s air force.

The Arab Republic of Egypt could sign a new deal with Dassault Aviation to purchase an additional twelve Rafale fighter aircraft.

On 16 February 2015, France agreed to deliver 24 Rafale fighter jets (16 two-seaters and 8 single-seaters) to Egypt at a cost of $5.9 billion in order to equip its Air Force with a latest-generation multirole fighter capable of meeting the country’s operational requirements and enabling Egypt, with full sovereignty, to secure its geostrategic position in the region.

In June 2016, Egypt started negotiations with Dassault to acquire 12 additional Rafales which was an option on the original contract. But Egypt has been facing opposition from the French Treasury to obtain the same favourable financial package it obtained for the original order.

Later the Scramble Magazine has posted that a K-8E Karakorum jet trainer of the Egypt Air Force has crashed on 28 January 2019. The pilot was unfortunately killed in the accident.

Initially it was reported that a Dasault Rafale was involved in this accident, but this appeared to be incorrect. It is reported that the pilot of the unfortunate K-8 was a Rafale pilot. He was one of the first Egypt pilots flying the Rafale.

JAKARTA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Gunmen shot an aircraft carrying soldiers in Papua province of easternmost of Indonesia on Monday, leaving one soldier dead, a military officer said.

The shootings occurred when the Enggang Air Service plane carrying logistics was about to land at an airport in Mapenduma of Nduga district, spokesman of Cendrawasih military command Col. Muhammad Aidi said.

The aircraft was shot at its right and soldiers who were guarding the airport shot back, triggering exchange of fires, the colonel said.

One of the soldiers was shot on stomach and later died in hospital, said the officer.

The gunmen retreated and escaped to the forest and the plane landed safely, he said in a statement.

Two Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots were killed on Friday after a Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft on a test sortie crashed at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru. An enquiry into the incident will be ordered, the defence ministry said.

According to IAF sources, the two pilots, Squadron leader Siddharth Negi and Squadron leader Sameer Abrol, sustained fatal injuries after the aircraft crashed during take off this morning. “Today morning, a Mirage 2000 trainer aircraft on an acceptance sortie after upgrade crashed at HAL airport, Bengaluru. Both occupants sustained fatal injuries. Further details are awaited. An investigation into the cause of the accident is being ordered,” a statement by the defence ministry said.

One of the pilots died after he landed on the wreckage of the aircraft, new agency ANI reported. The second pilot was ejected safely but later succumbed to his injuries.

A MiG-27 aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Pokhran range in Rajasthan.

The aircraft was on a routine training mission. the aircraft had taken off from Jaisalmer.

The pilot ejected to safety, reported news agency ANI. A detailed statement from the Indian Air Force is awaited.

"The MiG-27 was on a training mission. After taking off from Jaisalmer around 6.10 pm, it crashed near Pokhran range.

The pilot ejected safely," news agency ANI quoted an IAF spokesperson as saying.

The accident comes hours ahead of the scheduled exercise- Vayushakti, at the Pokhran range.

The crash came on a day Air Marshal Anil Khosla, Vice Chief of Air Staff expressed concern over the death of two IAF pilots in a Mirage -2000 crash.

At least four soldiers were killed on Feb. 11 when their helicopter crashed during an emergency landing in Istanbul, the provincial governor said.

Ali Yerlikaya told reporters the helicopter crashed near a residential area in Çekmeköy district at 6.51 p.m. local time (1551GMT).

The cause of the crash remains unknown, he added.

The National Defense Ministry confirmed the death toll on Twitter and said an investigation into the crash had been launched. "Following a comprehensive investigation, the results will be shared," it said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a condolence message in the ensuing hours.  "We deeply feel the pain of our losses with our nation," he said.

Parliament Speaker Binali Yıldırım expressed sadness and extended condolences on Twitter.

A pilot has been killed after two planes crashed mid-air while rehearsing for an aerobatic show.

Two others were also injured in the collision between the Indian Air Force aircraft in the southern state of Karnataka on Tuesday, a senior police official said.

He said: “One Indian Air Force pilot has unfortunately lost his life.

“Two others were injured and shifted to hospital, but are said to be out of danger.”

The defence ministry confirmed that two Hawk aircraft of the Surya Kiran Aerobatic Display Team had crashed near Yelahanka Air Force Base.

Pakistan’s air force said it has shot down two Indian warplanes after they crossed the boundary between the two nuclear-armed rivals in the disputed territory of Kashmir, with two Indian pilots being captured.

The civil aviation authority in Pakistan later shut all airspace in the country to commercial flights.

The dramatic escalation came hours after Pakistan said mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier dividing the two sectors of Kashmir killed six civilians and wounded several others.

Pakistan’s army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said Pakistani troops on the ground captured the pilots.

He added that one of the downed planes crashed in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir, while the other went down in Indian-controlled section of the Himalayan region.

The injured pilot is being treated at a military hospital. Maj Gen Ghafoor said the pilots are being treated well, but made no mention of them being returned to India.

He struck a conciliatory tone, saying: “We have no intention of escalation, but are fully prepared to do so if forced into that paradigm.”

Indian air force spokesman Anupam Banerjee in New Delhi said he had no information on Pakistan’s statement.

SRINAGAR: A Mi 17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force crashed in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam area on Wednesday. The pilot is feared dead while a civilian is also dead. However, authorities are yet to confirm the deaths.

According to local residents the jet crashed in an open field near Garend Kalaan village in Budgam at 10.05 am, the officials said. The aircraft broke into two and caught fire immediately, the officials said, adding one body was seen near the site crash, reported news agency PTI.

The identity of the deceased could not be confirmed immediately, they said, adding the fate of the pilots was not known. 

An eyewitness at the crash site in Budgam claimed that "it was a jet aircraft".

Operation of commercial flights in the area has been put on hold.

A South Korean twin-seater KF-16D fighter jet crashed into the West Sea on Wednesday, both the pilots were rescued safely.

The KF-16D warplane fell into the sea for an unidentified reason at 12:13 p.m., 13 minutes after departing from an air base in Gunsan, 274 kilometers south of Seoul, it said in a text message sent to reporters.

The pilots immediately ejected and were rescued, Yonhap reported quoting South Korean Air Force as saying in a statement Wednesday.

"The two pilots are currently returning to their base, and their condition is confirmed to be good," it said.

The Air Force formed a task force to verify the exact cause of the crash. The KF-16D was delivered to the Air Force in the late 1990s

A supersonic MiG-29 fighter jet of Polish Air Force crashed near the town of Stoczek, on Monday.

According to several media reports, MiG-29 fighter assigned to the 23rd Tactical Air Base of the Polish Air Force shortly after taking off on a training mission. Some source reported that the pilot ejected from the fighter jet.

Witnesses told that the MiG-29’s p[ilot was evacuated to a military hospital at Szaserów in Warsaw and he is a stable condition.

According to Defence24.pl, the crash occurred at 13:17 in the fourth minute after the takeoff from the Mińsk Mazowiecki airport. The military plane was supposed to take a technical flight after the work carried out on it.

A MiG-29 has crashed in the woods, causing a fire, that has already been extinguished, the radio station RMF FM reported.

Ten fire brigades and police from neighbouring Wegrow have reportedly been sent to the place of the incident.

Officials said the crash of military aircraft was under investigation.

The Indian Air Force shot down an unidentified flying object that was detected over the Indo-Pak International Border in Rajasthan. Top defence sources said that the unidentified aircraft, likely a drone, entered Indian airspace this morning.

The Indian Air Force scrambled fighter jets in response. The jets shot down the Pakistani aircraft with air-to-air missiles.

Indian Air Force radars detected the drone's presence in Indian airspace at around 11:30 this morning.

The IAF immediately scrambbled Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jets from the Nal Airforce Station, located on the outskirts of Bikaner. The jets took to the skies and took down the drone by firing an air-to-air missile.

The drone's debris landed in Pakistan on a sand dune name MW Toba.

Interestingly, just before news broke in India of the Indian Air Force shooting the Pakistani aircraft, Pakistani Twitter exploded with speculation that Indian Air Force had carried out another airstrike, this time across the Rajasthan border.

Several Twitter handles tweeted photos of a broken metal object, saying that it the debris of bombs that Indian Air Force jets had dropped in Fort Abbas in Pakistan's Punjab.

The Pakistan military said there was no airstrike and that the photos of the metal objects were fuel tanks dumped by Pakistani jets flying in the area.

The development in Rajasthan comes at a time when tensions between India and Pakistan are high and when militaries on both sides are on alert.

A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in Rajasthan’s Bikaner on Friday. The plane crashed after it reportedly suffered a bird hit.

The plane had taken off from Nal near Bikaner. The pilot is said to have ejected safely.

The plane was on a routine training sortie and hence was unarmed.

A Court of Inquiry has been instituted to look into the accident.

(More details are awaited)

SONGKHLA: Two air force pilots and a mechanic were slightly injured when their old AU-23 Peacemaker crash-landed in Khlong Hoi Khong district around noon on Tuesday.

RTAF spokesman AM Pongsak Semachai said the single-engined plane took off from the 9th ad hoc air force command in Pattani province at 11.56am, heading for Wing 56 in Khlong Hoi Khong.

It suffered an engine problem as it was approaching Wing 56 and the pilot made a hard, forced landing in the grounds of Wat Bang Sala in tambon Ban Phru of Khlong Hoi Khong.

The three crew were slightly injured and taken to a local hospital, said AM Pongsak, also director of civil affairs.

The air force received the AU-23 Peacemaker gunship, a utility transport plane, from the United States in 1972. The US used a small fleet of the modified Peacemaker, originally a single-engine Pilatus PC-6 Porter built in Switzerland, for counter-insurgency missions during the Vietnam war.

All were later sold to the Royal Thai Air Force. 

A Chinese navy plane crashed in Hainan province on Tuesday killing two crew members, the military said.

A short statement said the crash happened during a training exercise over rural Ledong county in the southern island province.

No one else was reported to have been injured after the plane hit the ground and the cause of the incident is being investigated.

Footage that purported to be taken from the crash site started circulating on social media after the accident.

The mobile phone footage, which news portal 163.com said was taken in Hainan, showed smoke rising from piles of wreckage next to a damaged water tower as bystanders gathered at the site.

The person who uploaded the footage said the plane had hit the water tower before crashing into the ground.

The PLA’s official statement did not specify the type plane that crashed, although unverified witness account online said it was a twin-seat Xian JH-7 “Flying Leopard”.

The JH-7, which entered service with the navy and air force in the 1990s, has been involved in a number of fatal accidents over the years.

A military aircraft crashed late Wednesday night in Algeria’s western Oran province, killing the pilot, according to local media reports.

Algerian daily Echorouk reported that the plane had crashed while carrying out nighttime training exercises in Oran’s Sidi Ghalem Mountain region.

As of Thursday morning, Algeria’s Defense Ministry had yet to comment on the incident.

Last month, an Algerian military aircraft crashed in the country’s western Tiaret province, killing both of its two-man crew.

Israeli Defense Force Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter crashed near Jerusalem.

The helicopter struck trees in bad weather conditions and crashed in Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem.

The helicopter sustained unknown damage and there were no fatalities.

Preliminary info suggests that the pilot flew in an area known for its long trees in bad weather, which caused him to crash into a large tree.

The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter

The navigator of a Rafale fighter plane was seriously injured early Wednesday afternoon at the military base of Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne) in an accident.

At approximately 13:52, the aircraft was taking off when the browser seat ejection device (pilot’s pair) tripped.

The pilot managed to land the aircraft safely. The 64-year-old navigator, who is not a soldier, was thrown off the runway and suffered serious injuries, including back injuries. Hospitalized, he is in a stable and conscious state.

The pilot suffered cuts in his hands because of the broken glass cockpit.

After being ejected on the track, the man was badly hurt, especially on the back.

He has been hospitalized and is currently in stable condition.

According to Colonel Cyrille Duvivier, spokesman for the Air Force, the passenger in the rear seat of the fighter did not belong to the Ministry of the Armed Forces and carried out a “theft of information”, he ejected “little after takeoff “for a” training mission “.

“His state of health is not a cause for concern,” the spokesman said.

Internal, security and judicial investigations will shed light on this incident, the Air Force said.