This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.
Aircraft terminology
Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.
For this list, the criteria used for a military aircraft will be: any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a governmental organization such as United States Department of Defense or British Armed Forces in either combat or non-combat missions. The aircraft will fall into categories such as fighter, bomber, attack, search and rescue, transport or training.
2010
January
13 January A Yemeni Air Force Aero L-39 Albatros training aircraft crashes in the area of Salah al-Din, west of the port city of Aden due to a technical problem. Pilot survives.
14 January Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27SM Flanker-B Mod. 1, 86 red, c/n 36911030105, of the 23rd Interceptor Aviation Regiment, crashes near Komsomolsk-on-Amur during a training mission. Pilot Col. Vladimir Sobolev killed.
14 January Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) PAC CT/4E Airtrainer, NZ1990, c/n 205, crashes near RNZAF Base Ohakea, New Zealand while performing routine aerobatic training. Pilot, Sqn Ldr Nick Cree, killed. The pilot was performing an aerobatic maneuver known as the "fishtail pass" at 58 knots when he lost control.
21 January A Maritime Safety and Rescue Society AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter, EC-KYR, c/n 31228, crashes into the sea off Almería while returning from SAR winch training. Only the winch operator survives. An optical illusion led to misconception of the aircraft's altitude.
21 January Finnish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-18D Hornet, HN-468, crashes in Juupajoki, north of the southern city of Tampere at about 11:50 local time. The two pilots eject safely and receive fractures and bruises due to the high speed of the aircraft at the time of ejection. At the time of the accident, the pilots were conducting flight tests of a previously damaged and rebuilt F-18. The crash was attributed to mechanical failure of the horizontal stabilizer actuation servo.
22 January A Myanmar Air Force Chengdu F-7 fighter crashed while attempting to land at Yangon airport, killing its pilot.
23 January United States Navy Beechcraft T-34C Turbo-Mentor, BuNo 161047, of Training Air Wing 5, crashes in Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. One pilot was rescued and the other was missing. The plane, on a routine nighttime instrument training mission, crashed about 1845 hrs. and was north of Lakefront Airport in New Orleans on an apparent approach to land. Coast Guard teams rescue the student pilot about 9 p.m. with mild hypothermia and moderate injuries from the water. The pilot, Lt. Clinton Wermers, 33, from Mitchell, South Dakota, is presumed dead. He had been assigned to Naval Air Station Whiting Field since March 2007. A memorial service is held for Lt. Wermers on 1 February at Whiting Field.
26 January A Nigerian Navy AgustaWestland A109E Power helicopter, 06, crashes in a swamp at Ikwerre, near Port Harcourt in south Nigeria. The accident happened at about 01:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) when the helicopter was returning from a routine patrol of Port Harcourt area in the Niger-Delta region. Four people are killed.
February
USAF Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, 88-0332, "Spirit of Washington", catches fire on the ground at Andersen AFB. The aircraft underwent 18 months of repairs in order to enable it to fly back to the mainland for more comprehensive repairs and is returned to service in December 2013.