Date |
Status |
Local S/N |
Aircraft |
AF/Unit |
Version |
Info |
Details |
19 Dec 1989 |
[
i/a] |
87251 |
87-
0251
|
USAF 36 TFS |
F-16C
Block
30
F
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Details
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Belly landed but stayed on the runway. Pilot did not eject. Aircraft carried wing commanders markings. Minor repairs were made but the aircraft never flew again and went to Sheppard AFB, Texas. Cause of the mishap happened as follows. The centerline tank was installed prior to flight. Leak and transfer check where good, but the pilot did not close the IFR door. The pilot noticed fuel not transferring and punched off the full centerline tank. The F-16 came into view for landing powered by the EPU only and kept the gear up. When the aircraft touched down bright colored flames came from under the aircraft as it slid to a stop, but it did not catch fire.
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19 Jan 1991 |
[
w/o] |
87257 |
87-
0257
|
USAF 614 TFS |
F-16C
Block
30
F
|
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Details
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Pilot, Major Jeffrey Scott Tice ejected safely after travelling 150 miles inside Iraq, but became a POW as the ejection took place over Iraq. It was the 8th combat loss and the first daylight raid over Baghdad. The aircraft was struck by an SA-3 just south of Baghdad. Aircraft 86-0225 was brought in to replace this lost aircraft. Major Tice's aircraft aborted and 87-0257 was the spare for that day. Wreckage was later found by the US Marines who contacted the squadron to see what they wanted done with the aircraft as the aircraft was largely intact. Order was give to destroy the aircraft. Location of the crash site was in a section of Iraq that the US Marines had occupied. Most reports have the two losses of F-16's from this squadron switched on this date. Flew 4 missions before being written off.
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18 May 1993 |
[
w/o] |
87269 |
87-
0269
|
USAF 414 CTS |
F-16C
Block
32
F
|
|
Details
|
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Written-off at Nellis AFB, Nevada at 12:25 hours. The pilot, Major Scott Anderson, experienced a G-LOC during a BFM exercise with some F-15s and ejected, suffering only a broken legg. The aircraft wore the blue Su-27 scheme.
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26 Jan 1994 |
[
w/o] |
87270 |
87-
0270
|
USAF 480 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
|
Details
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Two F-16s (#87-0389 and #87-0270) were doing a formation take-off from Wright-Patterson AFB. At lift off, the lead aircraft (87-0270) pitched nose down. The aircraft did not respond to nose up commands by the pilot so Capt. Anthony Zaccaro ejected successfully. The plane came down in the grass off the left side of the runway. During the slide, the gear struts failed, fuel cells ruptured and a big fire trailed and engulfed the aircraft when it stopped. After that the second aircraft pitched nose down and blew the nose tire braking the nose strut. In this condition the aircraft was unflyable. It was tracking straight down the runway and responded to brake pressure so Lt. Mark Bortiatynski completed an abort and successfully egressed after sliding to a stop. When this aircraft hit the runway, the centerline fuel tank split and the fuel was ignited which left a large trailing fireball.
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25 Jun 1995 |
[
w/o] |
87273 |
87-
0273
|
USAF 176 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
|
Details
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Went down 2 miles southeast of Strum, Wisconsin at 10:20 hours after engine began to loose thrust. The pilot, Captain John C. Wasserburger, ejected safely before aircraft impacted the terrain. The F-16 belonged to the Wisconsin ANG at the time of the crash.
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06 May 1994 |
[
w/o] |
87274 |
87-
0274
|
USAF 80 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
|
Details
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Collided in mid-air over the Yellow Sea with an F-15C (78-0530) of the 67th FS which was 2 miles off Boryong, South Korea. The resulting crash killed the pilot of the F-15, Captain John Kindred. The F-16 pilot ejected safely.
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17 Jun 1992 |
[
act] |
87293 |
87-
0293
|
USAF USAF ADS |
F-16C
Block
32
H
|
|
Details
|
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The aircraft, which was the number one Thunderbird, was badly damaged at Selfridge ANGB. A person drove his vehicle into the side of the Thunderbird F-16 at 70 miles per hour in what was later determined as a suicide. The crash tore out the port main undercarriage of the aircraft, and the aircraft was pushed 14 feet into another Thunderbird F-16C causing damage. The driver did not survive, and the time of the accident was about three in the morning. The aircraft was repaired at Ogden ALC and completed by April 1993. After its repair it was returned to Nellis AFB.
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28 Jul 2011 |
[
sto] |
87296 |
87-
0296
|
USAF 100 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
News Article
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Details
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Ran off the runway at Oshkosh at 11.20hrs.
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07 May 1991 |
[
w/o] |
87302 |
87-
0302
|
USAF 14 TFS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
|
Details
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Crashed in Leftwich park after the pilot ejected safely. The site of the crash was 4 miles north of Misawa, Japan.
Witness Acount: "The load crew that I was on was doing a FOD walk in front of D-13 or D-15 HAS when it was taking off for a night sortie during an exercise. We noticed sparks coming out of the engine and it slowed down and turned towards lake Ogawara. The pilot then ejected. The aircraft crashed in Leftwich park and took out part of the soft ball field. We were told that the engine came apart."
Ultimately it was determined that the main fuel pump valve failed. All F-16 were grounded for 2 weeks and adjustments to this system made.
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|
05 Apr 2017 |
[
w/o] |
87306 |
87-
0306
|
USAF 121 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
News Article
|
Details
|
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The F-16 suffered from an improper assembly of the main engine control and consequently crashed near Andrews AFB at 9:13 hours local. The pilot ejected safely.
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14 Feb 1994 |
[
w/o] |
87309 |
87-
0309
|
USAF USAF ADS |
F-16C
Block
32
H
|
|
Details
|
|
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The crash of Thunderbird no. 6 at Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield, Nevada. A pilot error was blamed for this training crash involving a manoeuvre called a spiral descent. The pilot, Captain Thomas H. Lewis Ill, survived, but the manoeuvre was discontinued.
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Unknown |
[
act] |
87314 |
87-
0314
|
USAF 36 TFS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
|
Details
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Aircraft got off the runway or taxiway. Repaired and put back into service.
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01 Aug 2013 |
[
act] |
87314 |
87-
0314
|
USAF 121 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
H
|
News Article
|
Details
|
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The F-16 was involved in a mid-air collision with another F-16 of the 121st FS (#86-0357) when executing a routine night training mission off the coast of Chincoteague, approximately 70 miles southeast of Washington. The accident occurred over water at 22:28 local time. This F-16 landed safely and received minor damage, but the other F-16 crashed, but the pilot ejected and was rescued out of the water at 00:30 local on August 2nd.
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27 Dec 2012 |
[
w/o] |
87315 |
87-
0315
|
USAF 194 FS |
F-16C
Block
32
J
|
News Article
|
Details
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Series of pilot errors resulted in the loss of this F-16 to an inverted stall. The pilot ejected safely and no one on the ground was injured as it was in a remote area of California. According to the results of the accident investigation, the pilot failed to properly recover the aircraft from a high-pitch, low airspeed state, resulting in an inverted deep stall. In addition, the pilot failed to properly apply out-of-control recovery procedures and was unable to recover the aircraft before ejection.
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09 Sep 2002 |
[
w/o] |
87316 |
87-
0316
|
USAF 522 FS |
F-16C
Block
30
J
|
News Article
|
Details
|
|
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Crashed killing pilot Captain Benton Zettel. Aircraft was lost 50 miles west of Cannon AFB, New Mexico.
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