[Accident Report] Recent ROCAF accidents in Taiwan

[Don Chan]

In the Chinese (Taiwan) site Yahoo! Taiwan Knowledge, an article dated 2005.03.15 at
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/questi...=1005030200371
has a list of ROCAF AT-3, F-5, F-16, Mirage 2000 accidents, 1990-2003.

2003.09.27, Ching Kuo IDF, serial number 1625. During training sortie, crashed into sea. Lieutenant-Colonel WANG Pei Jiang and First Lieutenant CAI Kun Nan ejected and saved.

2003.06.11, AT-3 trainer, serial number 0827. During training sortie, crashed into mountain. Major DUAN Lian Sheng and QIU Yi Feng martyred.
(I'm uncertain about Qiu's rank.)

2002.11.14, Mirage 2000, serial number 2058. During training sortie, crashed into sea. Lieutenant-Colonel ZHANG Jian Xiang and First Lieutenant LIU Hao Fan martyred.
However, this claim differs from the (IMO more reliable) list in the English (Taiwan) site Taiwan Air Power at
http://www.taiwanairpower.org/write_offs.html

2002.04.29, Ching Kuo IDF, serial number 1617, crashed.
However, the (IMO more reliable) list in Taiwan Air Power reported this happened in 2003.

2001.10.05, afternoon, F-5F, serial number 5356. During training sortie, crashed. Major LI Zhi Min and Captain KANG Hong Zhou martyred.

1999.01.25, F-16, serial number 6813. During training sortie, crashed. Lieutenant-Colonel ZHANG Jia Kun and Major DAI Wei Kang martyred.

1998.09.04, AT-3, serial number 0826, caught fire on runway. One pilot saved.

1997.06.27, AT-3, serial number 0833, of the Thunder Tiger aerobatic team, crashed onto runway. Two pilots martyred.
However, the list in Taiwan Air Power reported one pilot was martyred.

1996.02.28, AT-3, serial number 0843, crashed. One pilot saved.

1995.06.12, AT-3, serial number 0805, accident on runway. Two pilots saved.

1994.11.07, AT-3, serial number 0858, crashed into sea. Two pilots saved.

1994.01.26, AT-3, serial number 0850, crashed into sea. One pilot saved, one pilot martyred.

1992.10.14, AT-3, serial number 0804, crashed into mountain. Two pilots martyred.

1991.04.23, AT-3, serial number 0831, crashed. Pilot saved.
However, the list in Taiwan Air Power reported two pilots saved.

1990.09.06, AT-3, serial number 0837, crashed. Pilot saved.

[Arthur]

Very interesting - thanks for putting that up.

[Don Chan]

In the Chinese (Taiwan) news site Yahoo! Taiwan News, articles at
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050624/195/1zpsf.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050624/195/1zplk.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050624/43/1zpp6.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050624/43/1zqo7.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050624/4/1zp9a.html
some of which have a photo, reported:

On 24 June 2005, a ROCAF F-16B, number 6812, had a landing accident at Chia Yi AB, Chia Yi Hsien (Chia Yi County), Taiwan.

At 09:15, it took off for a training sortie over the ocean.
At 10:12, it came back and landed for 4,000 feet on the runway, which was wet with rain. It couldn't brake in time, and ran off runway, into the grass.
The aircraft and crew weren't damaged or wounded.
It was towed away for inspection.
The ROCAF asked the AP to remain closed until 14:30.

[Transall]

Hello Don,

I'm intrigued by your use of the word "martyred".
I did't know the Chinese used that word.
It amazes me that someone who works in the PRC uses this word to describe the fate of RoC pilots.

Cheers, Transall.

[Hydropod]

Both PRC and ROC used the word "martyred". You can find them in documents from way back describing people KIA as martyred, even before WWII.
In Chinese it is 牺牲 and literally means (ultimate) sacrifice.

[Vortex]

Both PRC and ROC used the word "martyred". You can find them in documents from way back describing people KIA as martyred, even before WWII.
In Chinese it is 牺牲 and literally means (ultimate) sacrifice.

sounds like sacrifice sounds closer. Maybe Don Chan is a Chinese Muslim. There are some of them.
the webster's definition:

mar·tyr (märÆtÃr), n.
1. a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
2. a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause: a martyr to the cause of social justice.
3. a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering: a martyr to severe headaches.
4. a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.
–v.t.
5. to make a martyr of, esp. by putting to death.
6. to torment or torture.

[Don Chan]

http://cn.news.yahoo.com/051021/1063/2fnga.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/051020/44/2frqm.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/051020/19/2fqq3.html
and with photos at
http://china.qianlong.com/4352/2005/...40@2850993.htm
http://cn.news.yahoo.com/051020/1063/2fmo9.html
http://jczs.sina.com.cn/2005-10-21/1150326021.html
http://mil.qianlong.com/4919/2005/10/20/228@2851603.htm
http://news.sohu.com/20051021/n227263451.shtml
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/051020/195/2fs9y.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/051020/195/2fs9u.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/051019/39/2fmjx.html
http://www.huaxia.com/js/th/2005/00377622.html

On 19 October 2005, at 19:18, a ROCN S-70CM2 ASW helo, serial number 2316, crashed into the sea, near Zuo Ying, Kao Hsiung City, Taiwan, during a landing-on-warship exercise with the ROCN Cheung Kung Class frigate FFG-1107 ROCS Tzu I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROCS_Tzu_I_(FFG-1107)

The helo belonged to 701st Squadron, normally based at Hua Lien, now temporarily at Zuo Ying.
Three crew. Co-pilot and instructor Lieutenant-Commander YANG Shun Yuan killed, body recovered at 19:54. ASW officer HUANG and pilot Lieutenant SONG missing. Yang had 2,700 flight hours, Huang 1,706, and Song 1,070.

For Song to pass the night landing-on-warship exercise, the helo was tasked with landing on the frigate three times. The first and second landings were successful. During the third landing, its angle was too high and speed too fast, so it climbed and attempted again, but in 10 seconds, it suddenly descended from altitude 80 ft and crashed, while witnessed by the frigate crew.
SAR effort by at least three heloes and 13 ships.
By 20:30, debris and oil slick found.

Also, on 12 January 1994, a ROCN S-70CM1 ASW helo, serial number 2311, crashed into sea, near Hua Lien, after took off from a Cheung Kung Class frigate and stalled.
Fell from altitude nine m.
One killed.

[Don Chan]

Maybe Don Chan is a Chinese Muslim. There are some of them.

I hear Great Cthulhu's voice, in my dreams, and He tells me to do things. 8(

Anyway.

How to be a Revolution Martyr, as published in The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China official site:
http://www.gov.cn/banshi/gm/content_63490.htm

[Canpark]

Interesting thread.

[hawkdriver05]

Wonder if they'll get an attrition replacement for the Mirage 2000?

[Don Chan]

http://www.cna.com.tw/eng/cepread.php?id=200602080024
(English)

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/060208/195/2u1k1.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/060208/44/2u1yg.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/060208/39/2u1oz.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/060208/39/2u1oy.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/060208/39/2u0uk.html
(Chinese)

8 February 2006:
F-16A. Armed with missiles.
Morning.
26th FS, 401st FW, ROCAF.
Took off at Jia Shan AB, Hua Lien, Taiwan.
One of two F-16s training in eastern air space.
At 10:02, generator warning light lit up.
About 10:22, landed at Ching Chuan Kang AB, Tai Chung, Taiwan.
Pilot XU Hong Zhou not wounded.
Other F-16 = a F-16B also landed there.
Ching Chuan Kang AB reportedly operated only Ching Kuo IDF, and had no F-16 ground crew. F-16 ground crew summoned from Hua Lien to repair.

[Don Chan]

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/Publish.aspx?cnid=65&p=8164
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/17/cepf.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/17/cep7.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/17/cetp.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/17/cevn.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/17/cevu.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/17/cevw.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...03/5/cesx.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...03/1/cenh.html

3 April 2007:
UH-1H. 355.
601st Air Cavalry Brigade, Army Aviation and Special Force Command, ROCA, based at Long Tan, Tao Yuan County.
16:28, during aerial recon training sortie, collided with a police broadcast tower on Qi Shan Mountain (Qi Shan, Zhong Liao 2 Lu, 100 Hao), and crashed into a forest, in Zhong Liao Shan area, near Qi Shan Town, Gao Xiong County, southern Taiwan.
Reportedly carried eight crew, five of whom killed, three missing.
Killed included: brigade commander Colonel Chen, assault battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Ma, battalion chief of staff Lieutenant Colonel Lai, co-pilot Captain Wu, mechanic NCO [Sergeant Major, or Master Sergeant, or Sergeant First Class] Luo.
Missing included: deputy brigade commander Colonel Lin, pilot Major Liu, company commander Major Zhu.

Police broadcast frequency FM 104.9 disrupted in accident area.
Local witnesses claimed weather was raining and very foggy.
Helicopter broke into three parts, with the tail hanging on the tower.

15:52, took off at Gui Ren AB, Tainan County.

News photos:
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/photo/url/d...07682.jpg.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/photo/url/d...07681.jpg.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/photo/url/d...07676.jpg.html

[Don Chan]

11 May 2007:
F-5F Zhong Zheng. 5371.
737th Wing, ROCAF.
9:39, during low-altitude air-to-mud training, while climbing, crashed into a building, armoured battalion depot, Hu Kou, Xin Zhu.
Two pilots killed. Pilot Major Wei, co-pilot Captain Zhan.
Bodies recovered and delivered to ROCA #804 Hospital.

Crash site caught fire.
On ground, two Singaporean soldiers killed, two Singaporean soldiers wounded.

9:00, took off at Zhi Hang AB, Tai Dong.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...1/17/e5rq.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...11/1/e5py.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...1/60/e5px.html

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...10/5/h1kk.html

11 May 2007:
During the Han Kuang 23 exercise in Taiwan, after a ROCAF F-5F crashed into a Singaporean Army soldiers' building, two of the burnt soldiers were immediately flown back to Singapore.
One of the two, of Chinese ancestry, passed away in May. 8(

The other, of non-Chinese ancestry, was at last discharged from his hospital on 8 July. 8)
He claimed he was fetching something when suddenly he heard a big noise and everything about him caught fire. He ran out of the building, and his comrades rescued him. Then, he was in a coma for six weeks, and 45% burnt. 8(

[Don Chan]

[I don't know how deep in details, or how far back in time, are the accident data in F-16.net, so these might be old news.]

25 January 1999:
F-16B. 6813.
22nd TFS, ROCAF, based at Chia Yi AB, and deployed to Hua Lien AB.
Crashed into Jin Zhen Mountain, in Tai Ma Li Mountain area, Tai Tung County.
Two pilots killed. Pilot Major Dai Wei Kang, co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Chang Chia Kun.

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_fighting_fa...rame-4196.html

At 16:15, it took off at Hua Lien AB, and flew to Tai Tung air-space, for instrument flight training.
At 16:40, it began TACAN training, 23 klicks from Tai Tung AB, and searching for magnetic track R-210.
Seven minutes later, or reportedly 16:54, it disppeared from radar screens, in direction of magnetic track R-232 from beacon.
At 17:03, Chih Hang AB scrambled S-70C SAR helo.
At 17:40, helo reported fire and explosions in Tai Ma Li Mountain area.
At 20:30, personnel on ground reached the wreck, in a tea farm, in Bei Li Village, 860 m ASL.
Tea factory caught fire, but no civilian wounded.

On previous day, Dai flew same course and training.
Just before accident, while descending with TACAN, the aircraft should turn right 30 degrees for landing, but didn't, at a spot about 3-5 NM from coast.
ATC advised the pilots, but after 48 seconds, the aircraft crashed into Jin Zhen Mountain.
Local weather was clouds and light rain from 1,500' AGL, or 4,000' ASL.

Chang (43 or 45?) had 3,000 flight hours.
Dai (30) had 1,300 flight hours.
Dai's wife's younger sister's boyfriend [or fiance?], Zhang Jia Cheng, was also a ROCAF F-16 pilot who crashed in the previous year, on 20 March 1998.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!NOQX0....84%8F%E5%A4%96
is a Chinese article dated 25 July 2007. The blogger remembers when he was in Primary Six (sixth year of primary school) or Secondary One, he practised Tae Kwon Do with Dai Wei Kang.
The blogger re-posts news articles about the accident.

http://www.people.com.cn/GB/junshi/6...06/410053.html
http://taiwantp.net/cgi/roadbbs.pl?b..._post&post=148
http://washeng.net/HuaShan/RECS/Jiao...ent/2555.shtml

20 March 1998:
F-16B. 6828 [not 6811].
ROCAF, based at Chia Yi AB.
14:30, missing, about 50 NM southwest of Peng Hu.
Latitude north 23 degrees 37 minutes; longitude east 118 degrees 53 minutes.
Two pilots missing, bodies not recovered, assumed killed. Pilot Captain Zhang Jia Cheng (28), co-pilot Major Wen (34).

First ROCAF F-16 crash.

13:58, took off at Chia Yi AB.
During training, crashed into sea, west of Hua Yu, Peng Hu County.

Wen had 1,661 flight hours, including 220 hours with F-16.
Zhang had 975 flight hours, including 108 hours with F-16.

A Chinese article dated 17 January 2002, in the ETtoday news site, at
http://www.ettoday.com/2002/01/17/706-1251439.htm
reported: on 13 January, about 16:00, a fishing ship caught about 20 pieces of military aircraft debris, east of Hua Yu.

http://www.ettoday.com/2002/01/18/706-1251521.htm
reported: soon, the marking and shape of one piece of debris appeared as a Mk 20 cluster bomb shell. A bombing range is 20 klicks from Hua Yu, so the debris may not be F-16.

http://www.people.com.cn/GB/junshi/6...06/410053.html
http://taiwantp.net/cgi/roadbbs.pl?b..._post&post=148
http://washeng.net/HuaShan/RECS/Jiao...ent/2555.shtml

[Don Chan]

Tuesday, 4 March 2008:
F-16A Block 20. 6706 (93-0807).
12th FS, 401st FW, ROCAF, based at Hua Lien AFB.
19:18, during night intercept training, missing and presumed crashed into sea, 42 NM southeast of Hua Lien. Hua Lien TACAN: 124 degrees.
One pilot MIA. Major TING Shih Pao.

18:50, took off for training, at Hua Lien AFB.
19:00, completed training item, and last communicated with control tower.

6706 delivered for duty on 17 August 1999. 1,075.5 flight hours. No maintenance problem in last three months.
(Some articles claimed it was a photo-recon F-16.)

Ting had 1,234.5 flight hours. 383 hours in F-16. Assigned to Hua Lien AFB for four years. Flew F-CK-1 and F-16. Recently qualified as two-aircraft element leader.
He was 34. Married, with one son (one year old in March). Parents already passed away. Second of four sons.

Photo of 6706:
http://www.taiwanairpower.org/af/f16.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/photo/url/d...35903.jpg.html

Photo of Ting:
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...04/5/unf8.html

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/69/up1t.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/60/uplq.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/60/uozb.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/60/uno7.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/17/uph3.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/17/uph1.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/17/uomj.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...5/17/uoiy.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...05/5/upoq.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...05/1/up29.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...04/1/ung9.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...04/1/undy.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...04/1/unbl.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...04/8/un5u.html

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...3/60/v9bb.html

13 March 2008:
ROCAF 401st FW confirms 1.5 m X 0.5 m metal panel, found floating near Hua Lien coast, is not debris from F-16A #6706.

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...4/60/xx6v.html

24 April 2008:
Taiwan President Chen meets Captain Ting's wife.

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/12z18.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/12zo1.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...0/8/12yv7.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...0/1/12z8w.html

10 July 2008:
F-16B.
455th FW, ROCAF.
About 8:00, during training above Taiwan Strait, engine overheat warning light turns on, and emergency lands at Ma Kong AP, Peng Hu.
Aircraft OK.
Two pilots OK.

Other F-16 flights not suspended.

7:30, took off at Chia Yi AB.

ROCAF and ROKAF are cutting back training sorties, and using more computer and flight sim training anyway, to save fuel.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/12zbw.html

10 July 2008:
Collection figures of ROC military female soldiers.

[Don Chan]

"Jinxed July"

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/featurestory/ah1w080716.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/13cb1.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/13bqa.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/13bpy.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/8/13c2y.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/8/13btg.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/8/13cd2.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/1/13ccv.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/1/13bwy.html

16 July 2008:
AH-1W. 515, also 164927.
Attack helo battalion, 601st Brigade, ROCA.
About 10:15, after aborted combat training and returning to base, crashed into roof and side of four-storey residential building, then into alley, on 3rd Section, Fu Long Road, Long Tan Village, Tao Yuan County.
Witnesses claimed main rotor almost stopped before it crashed.

Two crew killed.
Both rescued by local fire-fighters, and taken to ROC military 804th hospital.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/13cc6.html

Instructor pilot Lieutenant Colonel YU Jian Wen (this is by China transliteration; he's "YU Chien Wen" by Taiwan transliteration). 39 or 41? Attack battalion deputy commander. 1,792 hours; 1,200 hours with AH-1W.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../69/13cv9.html
Member of aircraft scale model club "Model Family". Had one nine-year-old daughter.
http://blog.roodo.com/model_family/a...s/6514375.html
http://blog.yam.com/model_family/article/5923104

Co-pilot Captain LI Huang Yu. 27. 450 hours; 320 hours with AH-1W.
Unmarried.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../11/13ct2.html

No civilian wounded.
Two civilian cars destroyed.
Building owner's family name is Liu. Bought for NT$ 5 mil, half year ago; recently renovated, and his family haven't moved into it.

9:38, took off at Long Tan Base, for five touch-and-go. No wingman.
First two touch-and-go were OK.
About 10:10, during third touch-and-go, requested shorter turn radius.
Aircraft was 14 years old. Had pylons, but unarmed.

http://www.taiwanairpower.org/army/ah1w/515.jpg
in
http://www.taiwanairpower.org/army/ah1w.html

Second of two ROCA AH-1W losses.
Back in 1993, ROC military bought 42 AH-1W and 26 OH-58D, for US$ 1.25 bil.
Total 63 AH-1W in two batches.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/13bqa.html

ROCA aircraft accidents in past 10 years.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/13bpy.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/8/13cov.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/8/13btg.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...6/1/13bwy.html

17 July 1999:
AH-1W. 526.
ROCA.
During system test flight, crashed at De Ji Reservoir, Tai Chung County.

Two crew killed/missing.
Both Captains.

Wreck recovered, after 20 days.
One or both bodies recovered, after one month.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/13bpy.html

18 July 2001:
AH-1W. 516.
602nd Air Cavalry Battalion, ROCA.

9:48, took off, for training, from Xin She Base, Tai Chung.
About 10:00, metal detector warning light turned on, and after standard trouble-shooting procedure, stayed on.
10:05, emergency landed in riverside park, Da Li City, Tai Chung County.
Aircraft OK.
Two crew OK.

Soon, UH-1H delivered mechanics from Xin She Base.
11:00, after repair, returned to base.

[Don Chan]

From the Model Family blog
http://blog.yam.com/model_family/article/5923104
at
http://blog.roodo.com/model_family/a...s/6514375.html
I went to
http://blog.roodo.com/RalphKuo/archives/6517433.html
which says
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!AThkE4...kWHwfn/profile
is Lt Col Yu's personal blog, last updated on 2007/12/16 23:17, but it apparently has photos of only aircraft models.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/13eal.html

Because of the ROCA, 601st Brigade, AH-1W #515 crash on 16 July 2008, the 601st Brigade open-house event on 19 July 2008 was cancelled.

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../11/13pfe.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/13ky4.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...0/8/13kt6.html

Sunday, 27 July 2008:
Today is the public funeral ceremony for Colonel (posthumous) Yu and Major (posthumous) Lee.

Yu was studying air transportation (literally "air logistics management") at Kai Nan University, Tao Yuan County.
http://www.knu.edu.tw/air/

The university principal specially awards an Honourary Master Degree to Yu, and personally delivers the certificate and robe to Yu's wife.

This page of the Website of the scale modelling club to which Yu belonged,
http://blog.roodo.com/model_family/a...s/6514375.html
has become an ad hoc shrine of respect to him.
(I already posted a few posts.)

[Don Chan]

http://www.takungpao.com/news/08/09/08/TM-958121.htm
http://www.tvbs.com.tw/NEWS/NEWS_LIS...20080908122337

2 April 2008:
HAWK SAM.
ROCAF, based at Yun Lin.
During maintenance, a HAWK SAM fell off its launcher, and had to be scrapped.
NT$ 8 mil down the drain. At least it didn't detonate. 8b

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...0/5/16t51.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...0/5/16t3p.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...0/1/16t1a.html

30 September 2008:
Funeral ceremony for ROCAF Major (posthumous Lieutenant Colonel) TING Shih Pao, whose F-16A Block 20, 6706 (93-0807), crashed on night of 4 March 2008.
After missing and not recovered for six months, officially declared killed.

Attended by ROC President Ma.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ryankuo-m...2047&next=2000

ROC presidential order dated 26 September 2008:
Major Ting posthumously promoted to Lieutenant Colonel; retroactively effective from 4 September 2008.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ryankuo-m...2033&l=f&fid=8

Lieutenant Colonel Ting's funeral ceremony on 30 September 2008.

[Don Chan]

21 October 2008:
S-70C(M)-2 ASW helo. 2321.
ROCN, based at Hua Lian.
During night ASW training, crashed into sea, 50 NM from Shih Ti Ping, Hua Lian.
Before the crash, the helo was hovering at 80' to 100' ASL, and lowering a sonar; but before the sonar was in the water, the helo suddenly crashed into sea.
Five crew.
After the crash, one killed and recovered: ASW NCO Chief Petty Officer ZHU Jun De (45, CHU Chun Teh, married, with two children).
Two wounded and rescued: flight engineer Chief Petty Officer TANG Zhi Xun (35, TANG Shih Shun, married), pilot Lieutenant Commander LIU Shi Chen (33, LIU Shih Cheng, married, with 1,449 flight hours).
Two missing: ASW officer Lieutenant HUANG Ji Sheng (28, single), co-pilot Lieutenant OU Shi Wen (30, OU Shih Wen, married, with 935 flight hours).

18:28, took off from ROCN warship Cheng De (1208).
18:44, missing, 62 NM and 132 degrees from Hua Lian.

After two crashes in two days, ROCN command immediately grounded all S-70Cs.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../69/185mh.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/1841h.html

After the crash, (the conscious, lucky, and relatively lightly wounded) Tang broke/kicked open the emergency window, and floated to the surface. He saw Liu and Zhu also floated to the surface, and grabbed them. They drifted for two hours before rescued by the warship Hai Yang.
After treatment, Tang was transferred from ICU to standard room. Tang's a cross-country bicyclist.
After spinal surgery, Liu was transferred to ICU.
Zhu was his parents' only son.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/182je.html

Serial numbers of three crashed ROCN S-70Cs are "5" apart (in-between).
12 January 1994: S-70C-M1, 2311.
19 October 2005: S-70C-M2, 2316.
21 October 2008: S-70C-M2, 2321.
Serial numbers coincidence or jinx?
Article doesn't say whether ROCN has any S-70C numbered 2306 or 2326?

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...2/5/181la.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...1/8/181h5.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...1/8/181i9.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/181j5.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/181jt.html

[Don Chan]

Written in Chinese (traditional) and last modified in May 2007,
http://nc.kl.edu.tw/bbs/archive/inde...3081-p-31.html
is (I think) the 31st and last page of a log of a message thread about ROCAF accidents and events on (I think) almost every day of the year, from 1930s to 2000s.

31 pages... Good for boring Sunday afternoons.

And there are mags and sites, esp those with military aircraft serial number databases, that collect such juicy historic details, such as the usual suspects: AFM and Scramble/Dutch Aviation Society, to which I contribute translations.

[Don Chan]

18 December 2008:
CH-47SD Super Chinook. 7303.
Air Lift Battalion, ROCA, based at Gui Ren AB, Tai Nan.
During training, due to engine malfunction and poor visibility, crash-landed in Zhong Liao Mountain area, Kao Hsiung County.
Five crew. Main pilot Major WU Cheng Wang, co-pilot LIN Ci Yi, and examination officer Lieutenant Colonel SHEN Xiao Xing were OK.
Two flight engineers were wounded, and taken by UH-1H to hospital. CHEN Jian Yu (left arm and left leg fractured), and WANG Huang Kun (jaw swollen).

10:00, took off at Gui Ren AB.
10:30, during field training, about 50' AGL, main pilot noticed engine #2 lost power, and due to low altitude, decided to emergency land on a flat ravine.

ROC purchased nine CH-47s, to replace the three B234s (civilian version of CH-47) that transferred to fire department air rescue.

Last year, on 3 April 2007, a ROCA UH-1H crashed into a police radio broadcast tower, in the same area. Eight crew and passengers were killed.
In the previous eight years, under the DPP government, 12 planes crashed. This year, under the KMT government, four heloes and planes crashed.

Photo of one of the wounded:
http://163.29.207.53/MNANew/Internet...spx?GUID=44215

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../60/1bett.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/1beuq.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/1beke.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...8/8/1bfg3.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...8/8/1bejv.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...8/8/1becm.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...8/5/1beve.html

[Don Chan]

26 March 2009:
UAV.
AIDC.
Morning, at ROCAF Tai Ma Li or Xiang Lan exercise range, Tai Tung County; took off, flew for five seconds, caught fire, and crashed into sea.
Men in red jackets went to the beach, and recovered debris.
Three days ago, while landing, it damaged its wing when it hit the runway.

The UAV is possibly a Tian Sun 2, Zhong Xiang 2, or another type.

Local fruit farmers are worried.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../78/1grz5.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../17/1gqxu.html

[Don Chan]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../20/2003446658

"Animal abusers face jail, NT$1 million fines: COA"

Saturday, Jun 20, 2009, Page 2
STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA

In the latest alleged animal abuse case, a pet dog raised by a 78-year-old woman in Chiayi County was shot dead by the military last weekend after the animal strayed onto a runway at Chiayi air base.

18 June 2009:
Chia Yi (Jia Yi) Shui Shang AB, 455th Composite Wing, ROCAF.
Chia Yi AB clarified that WRT dogs that wander into the AB, the MPs only shoot and kill dogs that reach the runway area. They first try to shoo away dogs that wander into the perimeter, before they set phasers on kill. 8(
Locals, including an old woman and her granddaughter, complained that the MPs fired at will when their dog, which recently gave birth to four puppies, wandered into the perimeter.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...8/8/1lhic.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url...8/1/1lh97.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/photo/url/d...24343.jpg.html
http://udn.com/NEWS/SOCIETY/SOC5/4968901.shtml

[Don Chan]

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../78/1m8bq.html

1 July 2009:
First, the rumour: in January 2009, a F-16B of 21st FS, 455th Composite Wing, ROCAF, based at Chia Yi AB, because its landing gear cracked, its landing was perilous. All F-16Bs were grounded, checked, and only 4-5 were available.
Second, the ROCAF clarified: one F-16B actually had landing gear problem. All F-16Bs were grounded, checked, and only one had that landing gear problem. The malfunctioned components were replaced, and sent to the US manufacturer for analysis.