Chengdu J-10 - Accidents and Incidents

Accidents and Incidents

There have been four known crashes of the J-10 to date. The first crash was of a prototype combat aircraft during testing in 1998 with the most likely cause cited as failure of the fly-by-wire flight control system.

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