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F-16 Accidents & Mishaps for the United States Air Force

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Found 523 aircraft, displaying 481- 495 [Sorted by Date]
Date Status Local S/N Aircraft AF/Unit Version Info Details
08 Oct 1993 [ w/o] 91350 91- 0350 USAF 23 FS F-16C Block 50 C Details
The aircraft crashed at 18:30 hours on a delivery flight at Remsen, near Griffiss AFB, New York. Air Force investigators have concluded that night fog and a blown fuse in instruments that receive landing information were the cause of the crash. Because of this situation the pilot had to divert, but the engine cut due to fuel starvation. The pilot, Captain Robert 'Rob' Swaringen, ejected safely. The F-16 cut a 1,000-foot swath through the trees off Joslyn Road before coming to rest in a fiery heap 500 feet from the home of Nick and Diane Polce. The aircraft was being delivered from Fort Worth, Texas to the 23rd FS in Spangdahlem AB, Germany.
11 Jul 1996 [ w/o] 91354 91- 0354 USAF 77 FS F-16C Block 50 C Details
Crashed about 15:30 hours into a house in Pensacola, Florida, following an engine failure 20 miles north of Pensacola while on route from Shaw AFB to Eglin AFB to avoid hurricane Bertha. The pilot was forced to eject two miles short of the runway. A child in the house was killed. A man and woman in the house suffered burns. The pilot ejected safely. The accident investigation showed foreign object damage to a fan blade caused a crack seven thousands of an inch (too small to visually spot). The blade was ingested into the engine. The engine had failed three times during the flight with two relighting's. With the third engine failure the pilot ditched the aircraft into what he hoped was an unpopulated area, and ejected at only 200 feet.
15 Aug 2009 [ act] 91364 91- 0364 USAF 77 FS F-16C Block 50 D News Article Details
During a night training sortie #91-0364 collided with #91-0365 over the Atlantic Ocean approx 126 nautical miles southeast of Shaw AFB. The aircraft suffered moderate damage to flight control surfaces and external stores. The jet recovered to Charleston AFB. #91-0365 crashed after the impact and was destroyed.
15 Oct 2009 [ w/o] 91365 91- 0365 USAF 77 FS F-16C Block 50 D News Article Details
During a night training sortie #91-0365 collided with #91-0364 over the Atlantic Ocean approximately 126 nautical miles southeast of Shaw AFB. The pilot did not survive the collision
11 Aug 2015 [ w/o] 91366 91- 0366 USAF 480 FS F-16C Block 50 D News Article Details
The pilot ejected safely after he jettisoned fuel tanks as part of emergency procedures. The aircraft went down in a forested area in southern Germany near U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria in Grafenwoehr during a training sortie from Spangdahlem AB. The cause was later determined that a structural failure of the bearing cage caused the engine control to malfunction.
Jun 2005 [ act] 91374 91- 0374 USAF 422 TES F-16C Block 52 D Details
Chalks wash out on F-16C #90-0809 during storm and the aircraft rolled into F-16C #91-0374 causing wing tip missile to puncture 374 right under nose. Unknown if the aircraft was marked 53 TEG at the time or not.
01 Dec 2014 [ w/o] 91375 91- 0375 USAF 77 FS F-16C Block 50 D News Article Details
Crashed at around 23:00 local right after take off from a fighter base in Jordan (probably Azraq AB) killing the pilot, Capt. William H. “Pyro” Dubois.
Jan 2002 [ act] 91377 91- 0377 USAF 77 FS F-16C Block 50 D Details

Struck by lightning during a sand storm while deployed for OSW. Was the lead aircraft of a two ship formation at an altitude of 35,000 to 40,000 feet when the wall of sand surrounded the aircraft and there was nowhere to go but through the storm. When the lightning strike occurred, the airspeed dropped to zero and the aircraft fell into a flat spint in the orange sand sky. Fortunately the pilot recovered but bottomed out at an altitude of only 500 feet.

Chris, the Crew Chief of #377 describes the experience: "We got the squacks saying my jet was code three for a lightning strike and the other was code one. That was strange to me because there really wasn't too much lightning out there and I had never seen a jet get struck by lightning. Anyway when the jet came in 15-20 minutes later, I noticed immediately something wrong, the ECM pod nose cone was gone! I hooked up the comm cord and said to the pilot like I always do "How are you doing Sir' did you have a good flight?" The only words out of his mouth were "I almost died, your jet saved me, if you could get me out as fast as you can." So as normal I shut him down, and it wasn't till I got a closer look that I noticed all kinds of things wrong; all of the leading edge tape was gone, the static dischargers broke off, the electronic nose cones of the cluster bombs he was carrying were gone and because it was our squadron jet, all the probes that I had polished were sandblasted… After that we had nothing but problems, a standby generator problem which ended up being the harness through the 341 bulkhead, a FLCS problem which was a harness in the right strake and a few flights later tension strut bushing problems that are still going on to this day."
12 Mar 2007 [ w/o] 91386 91- 0386 USAF 16 WS F-16C Block 52 D News Article Details
The aircraft crashed at 20:50 hours local near the end of the runway, while on approach to the Tonopah Test Range Airfield, approximately 20 miles southeast of Tonopah. The aircraft was flying a night training mission over the restricted Nevada Test and Training Range when his AB was stuck. The pilot tried to make an emergency landing but the lights at the airfield didn't come on, so he tried it with his NVG's. Right before he came in, the runway lights came on and he was blinded. He then saw he was short and after he took off the NVG's he ejected safely. Pilot was Maj. David Epperson.
22 Jul 1998 [ w/o] 91397 91- 0397 USAF 78 FS F-16C Block 50 D News Article Details
Crashed 19 kilometres off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The F-16 was in a simulated air-to-air combat training exercise from Shaw AFB. The pilot, Captain James Sevick, ejected safely and was subsequently rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter. In August the wreckage of the aircraft was recovered from a depth of fifty feet. Cause of the crash was a faulty bearing in the engine which controls airflow. The result was low thrust and inability to retain altitude. Wreckage kept at Shaw AFB.
09 Mar 2004 [ act] 91398 91- 0398 USAF 79 FS F-16C Block 50 D AIB Report Details
Suffered a mid-air with F-16C (#97-0109) at approximately 14:40 hours, 35 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Both aircraft landed safely
Nov 2016 [ act] 91400 91- 0400 USAF 13 FS F-16C Block 50 D Details
Aircraft suffered an electrical overflow which 'fried' its hardware.
12 Aug 2004 [ act] 91405 91- 0405 USAF 23 FS F-16C Block 50 D Details
The pilot switched to battery power during a recovery operation and EPU fired.
04 Apr 2018 [ w/o] 91413 91- 0413 USAF USAF ADS F-16C Block 52 D News Article Details
Crashed at the Nevada Test & Training Range at 10:30am local time, killing the pilot, Maj. Stephen Del Bagno. Accident was caused by temporarily loss of consciousness during a high G-force maneuver.
20 Mar 2002 [ w/o] 91415 91- 0415 USAF 23 FS F-16C Block 50 D News Article Details
Crashed while performing a PAR approach at night at Spangdahlem AB near Lancheid, Germany. Pilot, Captain Luke Johnson, was killed in the crash

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Abbreviations and symbols:
[act] Active [i/a] Instructional Airframe [sto] Stored (e.g. at AMARG)
[cld] Cancelled Order [msh] Involved in Mishap [w/o] Write-off
[con] Converted [o/o] On Order
[des] Destroyed (drone) [pre] Preserved (museum, gateguard) T/V LM Aero Type/Version (Construction) number
[emb] Embargoed [scr] Scrapped Photo Available
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Errors and Omissions

Mar 04, 2022 - 09:51 AM
F-16 CRASH

I couldn't find the Edwards AFB crash of 2001 in this list. I was trying to find what tail number it was.


Mar 04, 2024 - 06:45 AM
Jan 82

Some time in the 80s a f16 landing at nellis missed the the arresting Hook and went thru the barrier at end of runway and came to rest in 3 pieces on the golf course

Pilot was cut out of cockpit and walked away





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