A training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force has crashed in Jashore, killing its two pilots.

The pilots have been identified as Squadron Leader Md Serajul Islam and Squadron Leader Enayet Kabir Polash.

The plane crashed at Bukbhora Baor of Chandutia village of the district around 9pm on Sunday, but the local administration did not issue a statement regarding the pilots at the time.

The deaths were later confirmed by the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate or ISPR around midnight.

Local Union Council member Golam Mustafa said locals had heard two loud bangs and saw a plane plunging into the water and oil floating up.
The policemen and air force members had begun a rescue operation as soon as the incident took place, according to the union council member.

“The rescue work was delayed by rains,” said Abul Bashar Miah, inspector (investigation) of Jashore Kotwali Police Station.

Serajul and Enayet took off on a K-8W aircraft from the BAF Base Matiur Rahman as a part of their night training.

Bad weather is cited as the main factor of plane crash, according to the ISPR statement.

Air Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat has visited the scene the incident, reported ISPR.

Alamgir Pathan, manager of the Jashore Airport, told bdnews24.com that, contact with the aircraft after it was in the air for a few minutes. The incident was reported immediately.

“The bodies and the parts of the aircraft were recovered at night. But the exact position of the aircraft could not be ascertained due to the bad weather. The rescue operation was suspended around 4am due to the adverse weather conditions. Naval forces and the fire service diving squad restarted the operation again in the early hours of morning,” said Jashore Kotwali Police Station Inspector Abul Bashar Miah, .

A high-rank probe committee has been formed over the incident, according to the ISPR.

An Army Cessna 182 light aeroplane on a routine air patrol with four officers on-board, on Thursday crashed in a remote area in Mae Hong Son province four kilometres from the Myanmar border.

The fate of the officers onboard was unknown at press time.The cause of the aircraft’s crash in Muang district – reportedly during “open sky” conditions – is under investigation, said Third Region Army commander Lt-General Vijak Siribansop. 

The four officers onboard were identified as two pilots – Lieutenant Nareupol Pookthong and Lieutenant Wiroj Taengkratok – and two officers – Lieutenant Khemarat Doungkaew and Sgt-Major 1st Class Chatchanan Kheunkaew.

A source at the 7th Infantry Regiment’s Special Task Force, which dispatched a helicopter to scout the target area, spotted the crashed aircraft on a mountainous area near Ban Huai Sai Khao in Tambon Huai Pha of Muang district at about 5pm.

Officers were dispatched to the crash site to deliver aid but had not yet reached it as of press time.

The six-seater aeroplane had gone off the radar around 11am in the Thai-Myanmar border area in the province’s Pang Mapha district, prompting the army unit’s search. 

An earlier attempt to locate the missing plane also led to a request to the Shan State Army to search their territory in Loi Tai Lang, Myanmar, opposite to the province’s Tambon Pang Mapha.

A MiG-29 fighter jet crashed near the town of Pasłęk in northern Poland in the early hours of Friday, public broadcaster Polish Radio's IAR news agency reported.

Krzysztof Sobków, from the Government Security Centre, told IAR that the pilot died in the crash.

The causes of the tragic incident at around 2 am CET were not immediately known, IAR said.

The aircraft, which was part of the 22nd Tactical Air Base in the town of Malbork, hit the ground and burst into flames, the news agency reported.

The pilot had ejected from the plane some 18 km from Malbork but was found dead near the wreckage.

Poland’s air force fleet includes 31 MiG-29 fighter jets, some of which entered into service in 1989.

A MiG-21 has crashed at 86th Base during Borcea Open Day. Pilot has died.

A Romanian Air Force MiG-21 LanceR has crashed at around 13.30 LT on Jul. 7 at Base 86 Borcea during Borcea Open Day.

The pilot, initially reported as ejected from the aircraft, has been declared dead in the accident.

The MiG 21 LanceR is the upgraded avionics and weapons systems version of the MiG 21 Fishbed, developed by Elbit Systems and Aerostar Bacău for the Romanian Air Force.

The first LanceR flew in 1996 and was a LanceR A version.

The Romanian MiG 21 LanceR fleet is split between the 71st Air Base Câmpia Turzii and the 86th Air Base Borcea-Feteşti.

Their main mission is to provide QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) duties under the NATO control network by way of the Combined Air Operations Center in Torrejon.

BISHKEK, July 9 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter crashed in mountains of Kyrgyzstan's northern Issyk-Kul region on Monday, injuring four people, the press service of the country's armed forces reported.

"Today, MI-8 MTV, a helicopter of the Air Defense Forces of Kyrgyzstan crashed during a rescue operation on the South Enilchek site," it said.

The chopper was conducting an operation to rescue a Japanese climber when the accident occurred, Gulzat Jarasheva, head of the press service, told Xinhua. And the four people aboard received various injuries.

The press service statement attributed the crash to "the strong side wind during the landing" of the helicopter, which then "fell on the port side."

South Enilchek is located in the heart of the Northern Tien Shan in the headwaters of the Enilchek glacier, approximately at an altitude of 4000 meters above sea level.

A French soldier was killed and another seriously injured Tuesday in the crash of a military helicopter near Abidjan .

The French helicopter Aérospatiale Gazelle crashed around 17 hours in Modeste, a village located about ten kilometers east of the Ivorian economic capital, close to the coast.

According to a French military source who speaks on condition of anonymity, the helicopter belongs to the French Forces in Côte d’Ivoire (FFCI), which have a large base near Abidjan airport

The military base used in the fight against jihadist groups in the Sahel

The immediate cause of the accident is unknown.

The Accident Investigation Bureau of the transport ministry is on the scene after the incident, according to security sources.

TEHRAN, July 11 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian F-4 training jet crashed in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on Wednesday morning, local media reported.

The incident happened near the city of Sarbaz, leaving two pilots injured.

The two pilots ejected before the crash.

A local medical official told Tasnim that one of the pilots hurt his leg and the other sustained injuries in his neck.

The cause of the incident is not available.

The Panavia Tornado multirole combat aircraft of the Royal Saudi Air Force crashed at 04:41 AM local time in Asir Province on 12 July.

According to Arab Coalition spokesman Col. Turki Al-Maliki, a Saudi Arabian Royal Air Force Tornado jet came down in Asir region.

“The aircraft was returning from a training mission when it crashed in the southern region due to a technical failure,” said Al-Maliki.

The pilot and navigator, is reportedly, ejected from the aircraft before it crashed and after they were airlifted to hospital.

BUCHAREST, July 16 (Xinhua) -- An IAR 99 Hawk aircraft crashed Monday in the eastern county of Bacau, and the two pilots were rescued after ejecting.

The two-man crew flying from the 95th Air Base in Bacau crashed in the Nicolae Balcescu area, some eight kilometers southwest of the air base.

Several intervention, extrication, and first aid crews were sent to the scene.

Defence Minister Mihai Fifor, together with Chief of Staff Nicolae Ciuca, went to the scene.

This is the second crash of the Romanian Air Force in ten days. An MiG-21 LanceR fighter crashed on July 7 in an air show in southeastern Romania, killing the pilot.

The IAR 99 Hawk, the first fully Romanian-made and designed jet, is an advanced trainer and light attack aircraft capable of performing close air support and reconnaissance missions.

The design of the aircraft started in 1975 and the serial production began in 1987.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

Five people were killed Tuesday in a helicopter crash at a South Korean marine base in the southeastern city of Pohang, the Defense Ministry said.

The helicopter, which was being test-flown after a repair, caught fire after it crashed to the ground from about 10 meters (33 feet) in the air, the ministry said.

One person survived the crash and was being treated at a nearby hospital, it said. The severity of the person's injury wasn't immediately known. The names of the pilots and passengers weren't immediately announced.

The military plans to form a committee to investigate the cause of the crash.

Tuesday's crash was the second fatal accident involving South Korean military aircraft in recent months. Pohang is not far from where a South Korean F-15K fighter jet crashed into a mountain in April, killing both the pilot and co-pilot.

NEW DELHI. An Indian Air Force's MiG 21 fighter jet on Wednesday crashed in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh leaving the pilot of the aircraft dead.

According to initial reports, the MiG-21 aircraft took off from Pathankot air base in Punjab and crashed at Patta Jattiyan in Jawali subdivision of Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district.

As per the Kangra superintendent of police (SP), Santosh Paital, a police rescue team is present on the spot to carry out evacuation.

"The MiG-21 took off from Punjab's Pathankot & later lost contact with its system. Police present on the spot. Fire has been doused but debris are scattered everywhere. No civilian casualities have been reported so far," said Paital.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reports that Israeli Patriot missile batteries have engaged and downed an unspecified Syrian Air Force Sukhoi attack aircraft.

The incident happened on Tuesday Jul. 24 afternoon local time in Israel at the northeastern border with Syria near the Israeli town of Safed.

Reports indicate the Patriot missile battery that downed the Syrian aircraft was inside Safed, Israel, but that the aircraft actually crashed within Syrian borders.

The Syrian media has confirmed that one of their aircraft has crashed but maintains it was operating within Syrian airspace. Safed, Israel is only 43 miles from Daraa, Syria across a disputed border territory.

At this hour, it remains unclear if the aircraft downed was a Syrian Su-22 (NATO reporting name “Fitter”) or a Syrian Su-24 (NATO reporting name “Fencer”) according to the IDF.

Syria has not specified the type of aircraft lost yet.

Both of the aircraft use variable geometry swept wings or “swing wings” and are large ground attack aircraft difficult for laymen to differentiate visually from the ground, even though the nose of the aircraft are distinctly different.

Two pilots were killed in Vietnam Thursday when their Su-22 training jet crashed into thick jungle in heavy rains, police told AFP from the central mountainous region where the accident occurred.

The pilots were on a training drill when their aircraft crashed around midday in Nghe An province, a local police officer told AFP.

“The two pilots were killed,” the officer said, refusing to be named, adding that bad weather was hampering efforts to recover the victims’ remains.

An official with Nghia Dan district told Reuters that the aircraft crashed in a hilly area in the district, which is around 300 km (180 miles) south of Hanoi.

DTI reported that the jet took off at 11:16 a.m. but contact was lost at 11:35 a.m.

Colonel General Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy chairman of the General Political Department of the People’s Army of Vietnam named the pilots as Lieutenant Colonel Khuat Manh Tri and Colonel Pham Giang Nam, according to DTI.

Images on state media showed a large plume of smoke rising from dense mountain jungles where the plane – a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-22 from Vietnam People’s Air Force – went down.

A window fell off a U.S. military helicopter Friday at a U.S. base southwest of Tokyo, but no one was injured, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said.

The incident at the U.S. Naval Air Facility, Atsugi, in Kanagawa Prefecture follows a similar one last December, in which a window of a U.S. military helicopter fell onto an elementary school playground in Okinawa Prefecture.

“While no one was injured (in Friday’s incident) and it’s a case that happened inside a U.S. military base, a window falling is a serious problem,” Onodera told reporters.

In the latest case, the window fell inside the premises of the U.S. facility at around 11:50 a.m.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force, which jointly uses the Atsugi base with the U.S. military, noticed that a part fell from a helicopter shortly after takeoff, according to Onodera. The U.S. military admitted it was a window, he said.

The helicopter does not belong to the Atsugi base and the Defense Ministry is confirming the details of the aircraft with the U.S. side.

Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa told reporters in Tokyo that he was “very shocked about the frequency of accidents involving the U.S. military.”

The Defense Ministry has called on U.S. military forces in Japan to provide more information on incidents and to take measures to prevent similar incidents.

In December, a 7.7-kilogram window fell off a CH-53E transport helicopter as it was flying over an elementary school just outside U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

No one was injured, but the incident heightened concerns among people in Okinawa, which hosts the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan.

Last month, a U.S. F-15 fighter jet crashed into the sea off Okinawa, with the pilot picked up by a search-and-rescue crew from Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force.

Details are still coming in, but a T-38 Talon training jet from the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma has crashed. This is the sixth aircraft the Air Force has lost in non-combat mishaps in 2018 and the third incident involving a T-38 since November 2017.

This mishap occurred at around 3:30 PM local time in Oklahoma on Aug. 17, 2018. The jet plowed into farm pasture approximately 50 miles west of Vance Air Force Base, setting it on fire. Though the aircraft can carry a crew of two, the U.S. Air Force has said there was only a single pilot on board.

“One pilot was successfully ejected from one of Vance's T-38 training jets,” was how U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Eric Cardenas phrased the situation to Oklahoma's Enid News & Eagle newspaper. “The pilot is currently with emergency responders.”

Vance Air Force Base officials also said that the pilot was conscious after parachute down into the farm and that the property owner had given him water and tended to him until first responders arrived, according to The Olympian. Firefighters put out the resulting blaze, as well.

An American Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq early Monday, killing at least one member of the U.S.-led coalition and injuring multiple others, U.S. officials said.

There were no immediate indications that enemy fire was involved in the crash, which happened at approximately 1 a.m. local time (8 p.m. ET Sunday).

“All personnel were recovered … and three were evacuated for further treatment,” the joint Operation Inherent Resolve said in a statement. “The aircraft was conducting a partnered counterterrorism mission.”

An investigation was launched into the cause of the incident, it added.

A fighter jet crashed in southern Sweden on Tuesday morning, said the Armed Forces.

Sweden's Armed Forces said one of its Jas Gripen jets crashed eight kilometres north of Ronneby in the Blekinge region after a bird strike at around 1,000 metres in the air.

"The pilot bailed out and he has apparently waved at the rescue helicopter and he seems to be okay at least. We don't know much more at the moment," spokesperson Johan Lundberg told the TT news agency.

The alarm was raised at 9.41am after a witness saw a low-flying aircraft and then a pillar of smoke.

The pilot was taken to hospital, but was said to be in good condition "under the circumstances".

Authorities said the accident happened in a forest area and there were no other casualties reported.

Fire and rescue services remained at the scene in the afternoon to try to extinguish a fire caused by the aircraft. They warned people to stay away in order to avoid breathing in toxic fumes.

Seventeen people died in Ethiopia Thursday morning following a military plane crash about 75km south-east of Addis Ababa.

The plane had departed from Dire Dawa town in the eastern part, according to the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.

The news agency indicated that the plane crashed at a place called Nannawa area Lumme district near Modjo town, at around 10.30am local time and burst into flames, killing all the 17 people aboard.

Police commander Aschalew Alemu was quoted disclosing that two women and two children were among the causalities.

The remains of all the causalities were later taken away by two military choppers, according Mr Aschalew.

Authorities said they were investigating the cause of the Dash 6 airplane crash.

A crew member was killed when an helicopter of the Pakistan Navy crashed into Arabian Sea on Friday, media reported.

Spokesperson of the navy said that the helicopter was on its routine operation when it crashed into the sea, stretching off the shores of Pakistan’s south Sindh and southwest Balochistan provinces, Xinhua reported.

A rescue operation is underway, he confirmed, adding that the cause of the crash has not been ascertained yet and an investigation into the incident has been launched.

An Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashed on a training mission in the southwestern Khuzestan Province. The pilot was killed, while the co-pilot survived and was hospitalized.

The jet was flying a training mission when it crashed while trying to land on a runway at Dezful Air Base in the southwestern Khuzestan Province on Sunday, Iranian media reports.

The pilot, an Iranian colonel, died in the crash, the commander of Dezful’s police told Fars News Agency.

The co-pilot survived the incident, and was rushed to the hospital.