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

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



Found 449 aircraft, displaying 76-90 [Sorted by Date]
Date Status Local S/N Aircraft AF/Unit Version Info Details
12 Jan 1983 [w/o] 80600 80-0600 USAF FWS F-16A Block 15B Details
Crashed almost vertically into the ground near Nellis AFB at 11:33 hours. Only small parts of wreckage remained. Captain Peter L. Jones was killed when he did not eject. The aircraft was on a sortie which involved air-to-air combat with one other F-16. They were just finishing their last manoeuvres when the crash occurred.
02 Jul 1996 [pre] 80605 80-0605 USAF 186 FS F-16A Block 15B ADF Details
The aircraft crashed on the runway. It suffered fuselage damage from skidding 3,000 feet down the runway. Repaired for display at Great Falls, then transferred to Fargo/Hector IAP in August 1998 for display marked '82-1012'
30 Jul 1985 [w/o] 80606 80-0606 USAF 496 TFS F-16A Block 15B Details
Caught fire and was destroyed on the runway. Pilot Mike Jaensch, ejected from the air plane safely
05 May 1992 [w/o] 80610 80-0610 USAF 186 FS F-16A Block 15B ADF Details
Lost at Great Falls, Montana. Aircraft had experienced engine trouble during the flight. While landing and roll out, the engine accelerated out of control. The pilot ejected safely and the aircraft was a write off.
20 Jan 1983 [w/o] 80617 80-0617 USAF 10 TFS F-16A Block 15B Details
Crashed three miles West of Sinsheim, Germany. The pilot was killed in the mishap
11 Jul 1983 [w/o] 80627 80-0627 USAF 63 TFTS F-16B Block 10C Details
After an engine change, the reworked engine was ground tested. The aircraft jumped the chocks while in segment 2 afterburner. Maintainers failed to hook up the throtle linkage to the fuel control. Aircraft traveled across the ramp and onto soft ground where the gear was ripped off. The F-16's belly cut a 25 yard hole in the ground before coming to rest in a ditch. No injuries in this mishap.
10 May 1983 [w/o] 81664 81-0664 USAF 10 TFS F-16A Block 15C More Info Details
Aircraft was number two in a two-ship low-level training exercise. Towards the end of the exercise the number two aircraft was setting up to be the interceptor for a second time when the aircraft struck a fire house in Hornberg, Germany. The aircraft wreckage continued across the street and into the basement of a two story dwelling. Unfortunately First Lieutenant Steven L. Wallis was killed. Fortunately there were no casualties on the ground.
14 Sep 1989 [w/o] 81671 81-0671 USAF 186 FIS F-16A Block 15C Details
Impacted the ground in Arizona near the boarder of New Mexico. The aircraft was on temporary alert detachment at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona. Pilot ejected safely.
07 Jan 1997 [w/o] 81684 81-0684 USAF 179 FS F-16A Block 15C ADF Details
The aircraft went down about 50 miles north of its home base in Duluth, Minnesota while practising night intercepts. The aircraft went down in a remote dense woodland area near Greenwood Lake. The pilot, Maj. Pete Woodbury, did not eject.
14 Nov 1982 [w/o] 81692 81-0692 USAF 80 TFS F-16A Block 15D Details
Went down near Taejon, South Korea. The pilot, Capt. Theodore Harduvell, was killed during a low level training mission. Harduvell had just joined the 80th TFS in March of 1982. The insuing litigation against General Dynamics over the mishap, by Harduvell's widow, inspired the film "Afterburn".
31 Aug 1992 [w/o] 81697 81-0697 USAF 186 FS F-16A Block 15D ADF Details
This aircraft crashed in rural Georgia while deployed to Tyndall AFB for a live missile firing exercise known as 'Combat Archer'. The pilot was orbiting at high altitude waiting for a pair of navy F-18s to conduct DACT training maneuvers when the engine catastrophically failed. The pilot ejected safely
03 Mar 1992 [w/o] 81704 81-0704 USAF 171 FS F-16A Block 15D ADF Details
Collided in mid-air with F-16A (81-0706) near Bad Axe, Michigan killing one of the pilots, Lieutenant Colonel Roy Allen Keyt.
03 Mar 1992 [w/o] 81706 81-0706 USAF 171 FS F-16A Block 15D ADF Details
Collided in mid-air with F-16A (81-0704) near Bad Axe, Michigan killing one of the pilots, Lieutenant Colonel Roy Allen Keyt.
07 Jun 1988 [act] 81713 81-0713 USAF 159 FIS F-16A Block 15D Details
Lt. Commander Sam Carter was landing at Jacksonville IAP, Florida when two pigs ran across the runway in front of him. The pigs severed the left main landing gear and the pilot ejected, causing $487,000 in damage. 900 parts were replaced including all landing gear, speed brakes, horizontal stabilizers, the nose, canopy and most of the cockpit instrumentation. The jet flew again for the first time on 14 May 1989 with Lt. Commander Carter again at the controls. Shortly after the aircraft was fixed it was sent for ADF conversion.
26 Jan 1991 [w/o] 81717 81-0717 USAF 171 FIS F-16A Block 15E Details
Crashed near Fairhaven, Michigan

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Abbreviations and symbols:
[act] Active [msh] Involved in Mishap [w/o] Write-off
[cld] Cancelled Order [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
[i/a] Instructional Airframe [sto] Stored (e.g. at AMARG)



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