F-16 crash in Ukraine on 26 August 2024
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon · Hit by an anti-aircraft missile/pilot error/technical malfunction
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
- Aircraft type
- General Dynamics F-16
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- 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 crash of an F-16 fighter occurred on 26 August 2024 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The accident was the first crash of an F-16 aircraft supplied to Ukraine by NATO partners. The crash killed the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Mes.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Крушение F-16 на Украине 26 августа 2024 года” (revision 144905352, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Крушение F-16 на Украине 26 августа 2024 года
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 144905352 · 2025-05-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q130299149
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Крушение F-16 на Украине 26 августа 2024 года" (page 10739163, revision 144905352), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An F-16 fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Russian invasion: a military flight. The article: "The crash killed the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Mes."
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.