2022 Republic of China Air Force AIDC AT-3 crash
AIDC AT-3 · The cause of the crash is still under investigation
From Gangshan Air Base, Kaohsiung 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
- 0
- 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
AIDC AT-3
- Aircraft type
- Aidc AT-3
- 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
- 0852
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Gangshan Air Base, KaohsiungTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Kaohsiung, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2022 Republic of China Air Force AIDC AT-3 crash was a fatal flight training accident of the Republic of China Air Force. On 31 May 2022, a pilot of the Republic of China Armed Forces was killed in a crash while flying an AIDC AT-3 in flight training; this was the second fatal pilot crash of the Republic of China Armed Forces in 2022, and the third aircraft loss in the Republic of China since the beginning of 2022. After the accident, the Republic of China Air Force Academy suspended all flight training.
Accident investigation
According to the Republic of China Air Force Command Headquarters, the cause of the accident is still under investigation. Moreover, the pilot did not report any problem with the aircraft before the crash, nor did he send a distress signal before crashing. The weather reports at 7 and 8 o'clock on the hour that day showed visibility of 7 miles and a cloud ceiling of 8,000 feet, meeting flight standards; there were also a great many trainer aircraft training at the time, and bird dispersal operations are carried out every morning, with aircraft taking off only once conditions are confirmed to be low-risk.
According to information provided by the Air Force, the AT-3 involved, aircraft number 0852, had an airframe time of 6,068 hours 50 minutes; it last came out of a periodic inspection on 17 February 2022, had flown 77 hours 55 minutes since that inspection, and had no record of major repairs in the past year. Air Force Commander General Liu Jen-yuan and Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Sun Lien-sheng both rushed to Kaohsiung to direct and handle the follow-up investigation into this AT-3 trainer crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “2022年中華民國空軍AIDC AT-3墜毀事故” (revision 93346043, 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AIDC AT-3墜毀事故
- Article
- 2022年中華民國空軍AIDC AT-3墜毀事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93346043 · 2026-07-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q112189355
- 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AIDC AT-3墜毀事故" (page 7997987, revision 93346043), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- armed force named in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_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.