List of Harrier Jump Jet family losses


This is a list of Harrier Jump Jet family aircraft losses.

Crashes by decade

1960s

;14 December 1961
;12 July 1961
;16 June 1963
;1 April 1965
;21 September 1967
;27 January 1969
;4 June 1969

1970s

Spanish operated Harriers

; 11 June 1976

UK operated Harriers

;11 June 1970
;6 October 1970
;23 April 1971
;3 August 1971
;12 January 1972
;21 March 1972
;26 April 1972
;1 May 1972
;4 May 1972
;20 June 1972
;27 June 1972
;12 September 1972
;9 July 1973
;30 July 1973
;6 September 1973
;24 September 1973
;23 January 1974
;26 March 1974
;16 May 1974
;1 December 1975
;19 January 1976
;12 March 1976
;6 July 1976
;15 December 1978
;18 July 1979
;21 September 1979
;4 October 1979
;8 November 1979

US operated Harriers

;18 June 1971
;15 June 1974
27 July 1974
;9 October 1974
;13 February 1975
;3 July 1975
;16 December 1976
;6 April 1977
;12 July 1977
;26 July 1977
;6 September 1977
;2 October 1978
;10 October 1979
;12 October 1979

1980s

Indian operated Harriers

;4 May 1988
; 27 June 1988

Spanish operated Harriers

; 28 May 1980
; 22 October 1984
; 29 July 1986
; 18 December 1989

UK operated Harriers

;12 March 1980
;14 October 1980
;28 October 1980
; 1 December 1980
;22 May 1981
;26 May 1981
;14 July 1981
;12 February 1982
;4 May 1982: Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS1 crashed after being hit by 35mm cannon shells during a photographic sortie after earlier bombing raids on Goose Green airstrip, pilot killed.
;6 May 1982
;21 May 1982
;23 May 1982
;27 May 1982
;29 May 1982: Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS1 slid off the deck of HMS Invincible into the sea in bad weather, pilot recovered.
;30 May 1982
;1 June 1982
;8 June 1982
;29 June 1982
;6 November 1982
;23 February 1983
;22 March 1983
;3 May 1983
;28 October 1983 : RAF GR3 of 233 Operational Conversion Unit flew into the sea on Holbeach range.
;19 November 1983: RAF GR3 flew into high ground in Falkland Islands.
;3 June 1984
;29 November 1984
;18 February 1985
;19 November 1985
;17 June 1986
;28 June 1986
;22 October 1987
;2 November 1987
;20 May 1988
;18 August 1988
;20 June 1989

US operated Harriers

;13 March 1980
;1 May 1980
;19 January 1981
;26 June 1981
;3 December 1981
;26 January 1982
;5 March 1982
;24 September 1982
;1 December 1982
;27 April 1983
;25 April 1985
;12 August 1987
;1 March 1988
;13 July 1988
;3 May 1989

1990s

Indian operated Harriers

;9 June 1992
;9 December 1992
;8 February 1996
;30 September 1997
According to Indian media reports, as many as 16 out of a total 31 Indian Navy Sea Harriers were destroyed in crashes, which claimed seven pilots over a two decade period up to 2007.

Spanish operated Harriers

; 23 January 1990
; 26 November 1993
; 13 May 1994
; 19 February 1994

UK operated Harriers

;25 September 1991
;7 February 1992
;14 May 1992
;24 November 1993
;16 April 1994
;23 February 1996
;18 December 1998
;9 January 1997
;29 January 1999
;9 July 1999
;14 July 1999

US operated Harriers

;26 January 1990
;12 February 1990
;2 October 1990


;18 January 1991
;22 January 1991
;9 February 1991
;23 February 1991
;27 February 1991
;11 November 1991
;29 June 1992
;16 August 1992
;19 August 1992
; 10 August 1993
;30 January 1995
;18 September 1995
;16 February 1996
;7 October 1996
;7 October 1996
;15 October 1997
;2 May 1999
;30 August 1999

2000s

Indian operated Harriers

;25 May 2001
;24 August 2003
;17 December 2004
;5 December 2005
;5 April 2007
;9 September 2007
;24 December 2007

Italian operated Harriers

; 4 March 2002

Spanish operated Harriers

; 12 April 2003

UK operated Harriers

;2 August 2002
;5 December 2002
;14 October 2005
;13 July 2006
;16 June 2008: An RAF GR7 crashed at around 1.50pm near the village of Ashwell, in an unpopulated area of Rutland, after the pilot ejected shortly before landing at RAF Cottesmore.
;14 May 2009

US operated Harriers

; 15 April 2000
;3 February 2001
;1 April 2003
;6 December 2005
;27 November 2007
;13 February 2008
;15 May 2008 : US Marine Corps TAV-8B Harrier II from VMAT-203, crashed while on a training mission in southern Arizona, with both pilots ejecting safely.
;29 December 2008

2010s

Italian operated Harriers

; 14 July 2010

US operated Harriers

;18 July 2010
;29 March 2011
;25 July 2012
;14 September 2012
;9 May 2014
;4 June 2014
;6 May 2016
;22 September 2016
;3 April 2018