New Delhi: The B-52 bomber and F/A 18 Hornet crashes in the US, Tu-22M3 crash in Siberia, MFI-395 Super Mushshak crash in Pakistan and the AN-32 crash in Assam. A spate of incidents involving military aircraft across the globe over the last three days has once again brought to fore the risks attached with military and combat aviation.
In 2024, Pentagon data accessed by The Associated Press revealed that across the US military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55 percent in 2024, compared to the same number four years earlier.In India, the crash involving the AN-32 military transport aircraft marked the fourth major incident involving a military aircraft since the beginning of this year, the others being the ALH Dhruv chopper crash near Porbandar which claimed the lives of three personnel in January, a Tejas aircraft overshooting the runway in Gujarat in February, and the Su-30MKI crash in Assam’s Karbi Anglong which claimed the lives of two pilots in March.
Against this backdrop, ThePrint looks at the spate of major incidents around the world involving military aircraft since 13 June.
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