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2018 Tunisian Air Force aircraft accident

23 Apr 2018 · vicinity of the air base at Sfax

Aermacchi SF.260 · Crash

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Event

Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
Event fatalities
Unknown
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Military

Aermacchi SF.260

Aircraft type
Aermacchi SF-260
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded

Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.

From the Wikipedia article

The 2018 Tunisian Air Force aircraft accident was the crash of an Aermacchi SF.260 training aircraft belonging to the Tunisian Air Force in the vicinity of the air base at Sfax on the evening of 23 April 2018. The accident resulted in the death of the aircraft's crew, consisting of a flight instructor and a student.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “حادث طائرة جيش الطيران التونسي 2018” (revision 69522917, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Arabic Wikipedia article: حادث طائرة جيش الطيران التونسي 2018
Article
حادث طائرة جيش الطيران التونسي 2018
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
69522917 · 2025-02-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q54874080
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
ar Wikipedia article "حادث طائرة جيش الطيران التونسي 2018" (page 4325196, revision 69522917), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
Place and country
Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
Map position
none
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
Fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Arabic Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.