Don Chanhttp://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/may/28/us-air-force-pilot-survives-f-15-crash-okinawa/
US Air Force Pilot Survives F-15 Crash Off Okinawa
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
US F-15 Fighter Crashes in Pacific off Okinawa
TOKYO May 28, 2013 (AP)
Don Chan30 May 2013:
Probably SH-5.
North Sea Fleet, PLAN.
About 10 AM, during training, crashed into or crash-landed onto sea, Jiao Zhou Bay, Qing Dao, Shan Dong Province.
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2013-05/31/c_124790036.htm
http://www.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1025/6/1/5/102561511.html?coluid=4&kindid=16&docid=102561511&mdate=0531085215
http://www.hkcd.com.hk/content/2013-05/31/content_3201886.htm
http://news.hkheadline.com/dailynews/content_ch/2013/05/31/240008.asp
Don Chanhttp://www.redorbit.com/news/video/science_2/1112818982/laser-weapon-system-on-uss-dewey-04092013/
Laser Weapon System On USS Dewey
April 9, 2013
The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) in San Diego, Calif., is a technology demonstrator built by the Naval Sea Systems Command from commercial fiber solid state lasers, utilizing combination methods developed at the Naval Research Laboratory.
LaWS can be directed onto targets from the radar track obtained from a MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon system or other targeting source.
Don Chan20 May 2013:
Mirage 2000-5DI.
S/N 2052. C/N DI02.
499th Composite Wing, ROCAF.
10:15, during conversion training, pilots reported control sticks lost power feedback, couldn’t control, and multiple warning lights lit up.
10:18, crashed into sea, about 30 NM west of Hou Long, Miao Li County.
Or, west of Hsin Chu County.
Two pilots ejected.
11:32, rescued by ROCAF S-70C, and delivered to military hospital in Hsin Chu.
Front-seater was First Lieutenant ZHENG Yu Teng.
Year 100 (2011) Class, ROCAF Academy.
Total flight time: 290 hours.
Mirage flight time: four hours.
27 years old.
Not married.
Pilots complete F-5E training at 737th Wing at Tai Tung, and flight time achieves 250 hours, before they convert to F-16, IDF, or Mirage.
Back-seater was Lieutenant Colonel LIU Yong Xiang.
Year 87 (1998) Class, ROCAF Academy.
Total flight time: 1,745 hours.
38 years old.
Married.
9:54, departed Hsin Chu AB.
Last Mirage accident was 1992/11/14, emergency landing after bird strike.
Second-last F-16 crash was 2008 May.
Taiwan – Air Force
Dassault Mirage 2000-5DI
2052 (cn DI02)
http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20130520/KH7X3NK3V1L6M.shtml
http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20130520/KH7X3OY5A00PI.shtml
http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20130520/KH7X3P3959PK2.shtml
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=2225564
Don ChanInsitu Pacific delivers ScanEagle UAS
Published: May 14, 2013 at 2:44 PM
BRISBANE, Australia, May 14 (UPI) — A ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has been delivered to Japan by Australia’s Insitu Pacific for use by the country’s land self-defense force.
Don Chan15 May 2013:
F-16A-20-CF.
6622. KE-450.
455th Composite Wing, ROCAF, based at Chia Yi AB.
(Some news sites claim its S/N is KE-450.)
About 2:30 PM, during training flight, crashed into sea, southwest of Chia Yi.
Pilot ejected.
About 3:27 PM, rescued by ROCAF S-70C SAR helo, and returned to hospital at or near Chia Yi AB.
First Lieutenant WU Yan Ting. 26.
90th Class, ROCAF Academy.
Total flight time is about 360 hours.
F-16 flight time is about 60:55 hours.
Student/trainee pilot during conversion phase.
Not married.
(BTW, he wore an orange flight suit.)
About 2 PM, departed Chia Yi AB.
Wingman of flight of two.
Leader was Lieutenant-Colonel Zhang.
After this accident, ROCAF ORBAT has 144 F-16s.
http://udn.com/NEWS/SOCIETY/SOC2/7900722.shtml
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/metalf16/article?mid=5199
http://web.pts.org.tw/titv/news/news_info.php?UID=47410
Reportedly, before crash, engine flamed out or malfunctioned, and lost thrust.
Attempted three times to restart engine, and failed.
44 NM from Siao Gang (Xiao Gang), Kao Hsiung (Gao Xiong) County, at 2,000′, ejected, landed, and waited in dinghy.
Escorted and witnessed by leader.
About 2:40 PM, SAR helo took off.
Taiwan – Air Force
Lockheed Martin F-16A Fighting Falcon
6622 / 331 (cn TA-22)
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/SuperCobra/32393991
2011 RCYU open house F-16 Fighting Falcon solo demo
July 17, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/china/2013/05/130515_taiwan_fighter_crash.shtml
http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20130515/KH7W16PIZAWQQ.shtml
http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20130515/KH7W16P6B86I.shtml
Don Chanhttp://www.toonippo.co.jp/news_too/nto2013/20130513135329.asp
13 May 2013:
Four F-2.
JASDF, based at Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture, and temporarily deployed to Hachinohe JMSDF AB, Aomori Prefecture.
About 11:00, arrived at Hachinohe JMSDF AB for scramble missions.
Don Chanhttp://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2013/may/0507-ss-adam.html
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates ADAM Ground-Based Laser System in Increasingly Complex Tests Against Free-Flying Rockets
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 8, 2013 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today announced that it has successfully demonstrated the Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM) system in multiple tests against free-flying Qassam-like rocket targets.
The prototype laser system has destroyed eight small-caliber rocket targets in flight at a range of approximately 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) in tests conducted in March and April 2013.
Don Chanhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2013-05/09/c_124689194.htm#
Xin Hua News article dated 2013/05/09, with screen caps from a CCTV Channel 7 interview and report about a J-10 undated accident.
Searching by the pilot’s name, it was previously reported, for example, at an article dated 2009/11/13.
http://special.yunnan.cn/feature2/html/2009-11/13/content_976744_2.htm
The accident is dated 2006/03/30.
30 March 2006:
J-10.
Cheng Du military district, PLAAF.
5:03 PM, at 170 km from home base, and 9,435 m ASL, canopy shattered.
Cockpit depressurised, and temperature decreased to -40 degrees Celsius, or 60 degrees difference from ground temperature.
Despite cold and slipstream that was s_cking him out of his seat, he RTB, and landed at 5:23 PM.
Pilot was LU Jian Jun.
Group commander, unknown regiment, Cheng Du military district, PLAAF.
By 2009, he was regiment commander.
Don Chanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/hsu-chunyuan/sets/72157625628049326/with/5273202822/
Scans from back issues of Taiwanese magazine “Air Force of China”, dated 1977 to 1980.
You dudes take your time to gawk at the S/Ns.
Don Chanhttp://udn.com/NEWS/DOMESTIC/DOM2/7829344.shtml
News article dated 14 April 2013.
Military cemetery at Shu Lin District, New Tai Pei City, 238, Taiwan; currently has: M24 tank, Nike-Hercules SAM, two M116 75 mm guns, anchor from ROCS Lu Shan, propeller from ROCS Zhong Shan, and TF-104.
Apparently ROC MND agrees to add, by year end: two F-5E, one ROCAF 40 mm gun, anchor from a ROCN transport ship, and maybe Sea Gull missile boat and/or M48H tank.
Google Maps:
https://plus.google.com/113271725326526101306/about?gl=hk&hl=en
Don Chan*RUMOUR*
News photos taken from afar, show a burning and/or smoking object in a field.
Note the words “possibly” are according to news articles at news sites, for example, Ming Pao and Sina.
After all, the accident aircraft might be civilian.
3 May 2013:
Helicopter.
Possibly 7th Regiment, 26th Field Army (26th Ji Tuan Jun), Ji Nan military district, PLA.
6:40 AM, collided with power lines, and crashed at a wheat farm, at or near Si He Village, Jiang Guan Tun, Liao Cheng City, Shan Dong Province.
Crew and/or passengers possibly wounded.
Power loss in nearby counties for 2+ hours.
Also, power loss disabled factories and pumping stations, and consequently caused water loss.
By afternoon, tens of militia blockaded access to crash site.
http://news.shangdu.com/401/20130504/13_5794852.shtml
News article with map.
The first red dot east (right) of the crash site, is Ji Nan City.
The first red dot west (left) of the crash site, is Liao Cheng City.
The red star far north of the crash site, is Bei Jing City.
http://paper.wenweipo.com/2013/05/04/YO1305040010.htm
Possibly Z-9 with 3+ crew.
http://www.mingpaotor.com/htm/News/20130504/tcab1.htm?m=0
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2013-05/03/c_124661507.htm
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130504/-9-2960094/1.html
Don Chan3 May 2013:
F-5F.
737th Composite Wing, ROCAF.
8:45 AM, at Jia Dong bombing range, Ping Tung County, during bombing training, practice bomb landed inside range, bounced, and landed outside range, in a civilian mango farm.
Damaged one tree and water pipe.
Local police contacted ROCAF.
ROCAF investigated damage, and agreed to compensate.
ROC MND official news release:
Don ChanMore “reference” photos.
Article dated 2013/04/07.
http://news.jtbc.co.kr/article/article.aspx?news_id=NB10260623
Article dated 2013/04/04.
Still can’t read the serial number amongst the stencils painted below the canopy, or painted on the tail fin.
BTW, the dudettes are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9Muses
‘Nine Muses, also 9Muses, is a nine member South Korean girl group under the Star Empire Entertainment music label.’
Don Chanhttp://slide.mil.news.sina.com.cn/slide_8_33320_22859.html#p=6
Photos dated on or before 22 April 2013.
PLA Black Hawks at Ya An Earthquake, Si Chuan Province.
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