These are the yearly figures for aircraft losses and fatalities:
1997 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86
Lost aircraft 0 5 0 1 3 2 3 4 3 4 1 6
Fatalities 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 4 1 0
Failed ejections 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Successful ejections 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 5
From 1997, the numbers include the whole Defence Forces, as there isn't a separate air force, army or navy any longer.
During 1997, the Draken and Viggen units flew a total of 24,201 hours, against a planned 27,660.
By 1994, these were the numbers for lost aircraft in the Swedish air force:
Prototypes Production
losses built losses built
(during development)
Tunnan 1(1) 4 190 661
Lansen 4(3) 7 118 447
Draken 3(0) 5 118 599
Sk 60 1(?) 2 9 150
Viggen 7(3) 8 43 329
Gripen 2(2) 7 1 204 (on order)
"During development" means the prototypes flown before the
type is put in regular service. The prototypes will
continue to fly, for example to develop subsystems.
The second crashed Gripen "prototype" was actually a production aircraft in air force service, but flown by a Saab test pilot.
One Tunnan prototype crashed because of an engine failure. Of the service aircraft 30 were lost to causes having to do with the new technology: The swept back wing and defects in the artificial horizon system.
New technology, the hydraulically boosted control system, was the cause of three Lansen prototype crashes.
No Drakens were lost during the development phase. Of the service aircraft 25 have been lost due to causes related to its aerodynamic properties, of them 18 superstalls.
One Viggen prototype and the first series aircraft were lost due to assymetrical application of the trust reverser. Two other prototypes were lost during development, one due to engine failure. Three service aircraft crashed when their main wing spars failed.
Sources: FlygvapenNytt 4+5/1987, 1/94, 5/95+1/96, 1/97, 5/97+1/98