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April 5, 1997: A bush fire triggered the explosion of bombs stored at Basa Air Base, leaving a deep crater in the depot area, injuring 15 and causing extensive damage inside the base and in neighboring residential areas.
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving aircraft of the Philippine Air Force. May 18: Lili Marlene, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed in Mount Makaturing near Dansalan, Lanao, killing Col. Edwin Andrews, head of the Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC, later the Philippine Air Force) and...
4 lip 2021 · Six killed in helicopter crash. Capas, Tarlac – June 23, 2021. Six people were killed when an S-70i Black Hawk Utility helicopter crashed evening of June 23, 2021 in Tarlac. The crash site was a...
5 lip 2021 · MANILA — Philippine troops found the last five dead from the crash of a transport aircraft in the south, raising the death toll to 50 in the military’s worst air disaster, officials said...
Nigeria. September 26, 1992: C-130H 911 of the Nigerian Air Force crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, three engines failed, high take-off weight. All 158 people on board were killed, including eight foreign nationals. This crash is the deadliest involving the Lockheed C-130.
Since its foundation in 1941, Philippine Airlines has suffered more than 20 aircraft crashes, terrorist attacks and aircraft hijackings. Most of these accidents and incidents involved propeller-driven aircraft, and prior to the 1980s.
5 lip 2021 · A Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying combat troops assigned to fight Muslim militants crashed and exploded while landing in the south Sunday, killing dozens of army soldiers on board and three civilians on the ground in one of the worst disasters in the air force’s history.
