Ethiopia
- In 1976, two Ethiopian pilots defected to Sudan by flying their Northrop F-5A fighters to Kassala, the jets were returned to Ethiopia.
- In 1977, Ethiopian Air Force pilot Major Afeworki Mekonnen defected to Somalia with his English Electric Canberra bomber. Throughout the 1980s to 1991, several Ethiopian pilots defected with their planes to Sudan and Yemen.
- On 26 May 1991, The pilots of seven Mi-8s, an L-39, two An-12s, three MiG-23s, three Mi-24s and three Mi-35s defected from Ethiopia to Djibouti after the fall of the Mengistu government. The aircraft were all returned to Ethiopia on August 8.
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