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2020 Republic of China Air Force F-16 fighter disappearance

17 Nov 2020 · Republic of China

Republic of China Army F-16 fighter · (Missing)

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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

F-16 fighter

Aircraft type
F 16 FIGHTER
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
6672
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 2020 Republic of China Air Force F-16 fighter disappearance was a Taiwanese air accident that occurred on 17 November 2020, in which a Republic of China Air Force F16 fighter lost contact while conducting night flight training off the coast of Hualien.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “2020年中華民國空軍F-16戰鬥機失蹤事故” (revision 91070328, 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

Chinese Wikipedia article: 2020年中華民國空軍F-16戰鬥機失蹤事故
Article
2020年中華民國空軍F-16戰鬥機失蹤事故
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
91070328 · 2026-01-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q104982249
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
zh Wikipedia article "2020年中華民國空軍F-16戰鬥機失蹤事故" (page 7273980, revision 91070328), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
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
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 Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.