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F-16 Aircraft Database

F-16 Accident Reports for 1996




Found 19 F-16s, displaying 16-19 [Sorted by Date]
Date Status Local S/N FY/n AF/Unit Version Info Details
22 Nov 1996 [act] E-597 80-3597 RDAF Esk 730 F-16A Block 15 Details
The main undercarriage retracted just after touchdown during a touch and go exercise. The aircraft slid for 5,000 feet on its two wing tanks, and stopped still on the runway. The pilot stayed with the aircraft, and the aircraft had minor damage, which will be repaired. Damage was to wing tanks, main gear doors, ventral fins and elevators. The aircraft crashed at Skrydstrup.
22 Nov 1996 [w/o] 82020 82-1020 USAF 184 FS F-16A Block 15P Details
Crashed about 15 miles north of Tulsa at Skiatook, Oklahoma during a training sortie from its home base at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The pilot ejected safely but suffered only minor injuries.
27 Nov 1996 [w/o] 87372 87-0372 USAF 162 FS F-16D Block 30H Details
Crashed in heavy wooded area in south-central Ohio in the Brush Creek State Forest at 10:15 hours, both crew ejected safely. On a routine training mission from Springfield MAP.
11 Dec 1996 [w/o] ET-205 78-0205 RDAF Esk 730 F-16B Block 1 Details
On take-off from RAF Marham near Norfolk, United Kingdom, at 10:54 hours for return to Skydstrup air base the tower observed flames coming from the engine area and advised the pilot, Captain M. A. Friis, who elected to continue the take-off. Some 6 kilometres from the airfield, the crew ejected safely over Narborough at a height of 1,600 feet. The aircraft came down safely in an empty sugar beet field near Necton, Norfolk, after flying on for a further 12.8 kilometres. The student pilot, First Lieutenant M. L. Andersen’s parachute caught in a 26 foot tree, and took an hour to get him down

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



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