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A flight in an F-16 fighter jet from the Boca Chica airfield near Key West was supposed to be a reward for an Air Force reservist. Instead, the trip turned deadly when the jet made an emergency landing so its passenger could be rushed to the hospital.

Two fighter jets, a Greek (#514) and a Turkish F-16, collided in mid-air Tuesday over the southern Aegean Sea. The Turkish pilot was saved by a civilian ship. Reportedly, the Greek pilot has not survived the accident.

Two Italian F-16s (#MM7246 & #MM7263) ditched into the sea yesterday near Sardinia, Italy, during the international exercise "Spring Flag 2006". The incident occurred during a night training mission.

Today a F-16BM (J-064) of the RNLAF 312 sqn made a rough landing on the runway at Leeuwarden AB. Both pilots are ok.

The crew of the Sasebo-based U.S. Navy rescue and salvage ship USS Safeguard, with assistance from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1, recovered the majority of components of a 8th Fighter Wing F-16C fighter aircraft and its "black box" May 10.

On 9 May 2006, between 22:30h and midnight, a chaff dispenser fell from a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 aircraft flying between 4 Wing Cold Lake and the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, Alberta, Canada.

A RDAF F-16AM blew a tire during takeoff today. The pilot flew his airplane #E-198 for about hour to burn fuel and then landed, without further complications.

A tire failure caused an F-16C aircraft to depart the runway upon landing at Balad Air Base, Iraq, Oct. 9, 2005, according to an aircraft accident investigation report released April 12.

Recovery efforts are continuing for the F-16 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last Wednesday night off the coast of Myrtle Beach. A Navy sonar ship out of Georgetown is trying to locate the site of the jet.

An F-16C from Luke Air Force Base crashed today at 09.55h local time. The pilot safely ejected right after flames were seen at the rear end of the jet. This is the fourth USAF F-16 crash in as many weeks.

The fighter pilot rescued off the South Carolina coast after ejecting from his F-16 suffered broken legs, facial cuts and a broken wrist, Coast Guard rescuers said Today.

At around 17.40 hours while on a two ship training mission over the Atlantic, 30 miles off the coast of South Carolina, an F-16 went down. The other pilot in the flight saw the ejection and a parachute open but it was not untill 19.35 hours that the pilot was rescued by the US Coast Guard.

U.S. Navy divers Wednesday were probing a dark swatch of ocean floor about 25 miles off South Korea's west coast in a bid to recover the F-16 fighter plane that crashed there earlier this month.

An F-16C from Hill Air Force Base was on a training mission with three other jets when something went wrong and the pilot ejected. The jet crashed around 15.00h, approximately 30 miles west of Hill Air Force Base after the pilot ejected safely.

A KC-10 boom operator overcompensation caused an accident last October that resulted in $930,000 in damages to an F-16C fighter assigned to the South Dakota Air National Guard, the Air Force said on Wednesday.