2026 Republic of China Air Force F-16V crash
F-16A/B Block 20 · Crashed due to spatial disorientation
From Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN) 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
- 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-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
- 6700
- Operator
- Republic of China Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN)To 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
On the evening of 6 January 2026, a Republic of China Air Force F-16AM Block 20 fighter crashed due to spatial disorientation during night flying training off the coast of Fengbin Township, Hualien County, and the pilot, Captain Hsin Po-yi, went missing. On 15 January the black box signal was detected and precisely located, and the military would continue the search for Hsin Po-yi by means of "combining it with missions". On 16 March the black box was recovered and handed to the original manufacturer in the United States for analysis to clarify the cause of the crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “2026年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機失事事故” (revision 94399525, 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: 2026年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機失事事故
- Article
- 2026年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機失事事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 94399525 · 2026-09-17 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q137798902
- 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 "2026年中華民國空軍F-16V戰鬥機失事事故" (page 9390111, revision 94399525), 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 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.