British Air Services in The Falklands War - Casualties and Aircraft Losses

Casualties and Aircraft Losses

• Human losses:
  • 2 Army Air Corps
  • 4 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Royal Marines
  • 17 Fleet Air Arm
• Passengers
  • 1 Royal Air Force
  • 18 Special Air Service (Army)
  • 3 Royal Corps of Signals (Army)

• Aircraft Lost in the Air:, _{no suffix: Fleet Air Arm}
  • 2 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (hit by anti-aircraft fire during 4 May attack on Goose Green and by Roland missile during 1 June attack on Port Stanley)
  • 3 Westland Gazelle AH.1 Army and Royal Marines
  • 3 Harrier GR.3 RAF (shot down by shoulder-fired missile in Port Howard on 21 May, hit by anti-aircraft fire on 27 May over Goose Green and hit by ground fire near Port Stanley on 30 May)
  • 1 Scout AH.1 Royal Marines (shot down by Pucara at Goose Green on 28 May)

• Flying accidents in the war zone
  • 2 Westland Wessex HU.5 (crashed on in bad weather on Fortune Glacier 22 April)
  • 2 Westland Sea King HC.4 (1 lost operational accident 23 April)
  • 4 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (two 801 Sqn CAP collided over the task force on 6 May - one 800 Sqn crashed during takeoff from Hermes on 24 May - one 801 Sqn slid off deck in bad weather on 29 May)
  • 2 Westland Sea King HAS.5 (ditched on 12 May & 17 May)
  • 1 Harrier GR.3 RAF (landing accident on 8 June)
  • 1 Scout AH.1 Royal Marines (crash landed after main rotor gearbox failure over MacPhee Pond, 8 June. Recovered but wrtitten off.)
• Lost on board a ship
  • 3 Westland Lynx HAS.2 (aboard Ardent on 21 May and aboard Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May)
  • 3 Chinook HC.1 RAF
  • 6 Westland Wessex HU.5
  • 1 Westland Wessex HAS.3 (when Glamorgan hit by shore-launched Exocet on 12 June)

• Self-destruct in Chile
  • 1 Westland Sea King HC.4 (on 20 May)