• A US Air Force F-22A operated by the 3rd Wing was damaged in a takeoff incident at NAS Fallon, Nevada, on April 13. The Raptor was supporting the US Navy’s TOPGUN Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor (SFTI) program at the time. No injuries were reported.
• A Russian Navy Ka-29 crashed in the Baltic Sea during a night training exercise with a naval vessel on April 12. Both crew were killed when the helicopter went down west of Kaliningrad.
• A Yak-130 trainer operated by the Russian Air Force’s Krasnodar Higher Aviation School crashed on a training flight near Borisoglebsk in the Voronezh Region on April 12. The student and instructor pilots both ejected safely.
• The pilot of a Hellenic Air Force Mirage 2000-5 was killed when the fighter crashed in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Skyros on April 12. The Mirage, which had been assigned to 331 Mira, apparently went down around nine miles (14.5km) northeast of the island. It was reportedly one of two jets scrambled to intercept a pair of Turkish F-16Cs over the Aegean, near the Greek island of Lesbos, and was returning to base when the mishap occurred.
• An Il-76TD operated by the Algerian Air Force…
