2022 Republic of China Air Force F-16V crash into the sea
F-16A/B Block 20 · Crash into the sea
From Chiayi Airport (CYI) to an unrecorded destination
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
F-16A/B Block 20
- Aircraft type
- F 16a/b BLOCK 20
- 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
- 6650
- Operator
- Republic of China Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Chiayi Airport (CYI)To not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2022 Republic of China Air Force F-16V fighter crash into the sea refers to the event at 3:23 pm on 11 January 2022 in which an F-16V Fighting Falcon fighter flown by Chen Yi, a pilot of the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing at the Republic of China Air Force's Chiayi Air Base, disappeared as a radar blip off the coast of the Shuixi Range in Dongshi Township, Chiayi County. After the F-16V Fighting Falcon lost contact, the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense launched a search and rescue operation. This crash into the sea was the first loss of an F-16V Fighting Falcon since the type entered service in November 2021, and the Republic of China Air Force suspended F-16 Fighting Falcon training missions.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “2022年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機墜海事故” (revision 93411013, 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: 2022年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機墜海事故
- Article
- 2022年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機墜海事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93411013 · 2026-07-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q110527683
- 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 "2022年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機墜海事故" (page 7831689, revision 93411013), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- 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
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
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.