Notable Incidents and Accidents
- On 18 July 1980, 21 days after the Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 incident, the wreckage of a Libyan MiG-23 was found on the Sila Mountains in Castelsilano, Calabria, southern Italy, according to official reports.
- On 26 April 1984, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Robert M. Bond was killed when the MiG-23 he was piloting crashed at the Nevada Test Site. At the time of the mishap, Lt Gen Bond was serving as Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
- 4 July 1989: A "runaway" Soviet MiG-23 crashed into a house in Belgium, killing an 18-year-old man.
- 22 December 1992: Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 collides with a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 causing both to crash.
- 13 August 2012: MiG-23 Potentially shot down during Syrian Civil War by Free Syrian Army forces.
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