Hi Mriya. Long time no posts from you. How have you been?
In 1979, I was at Leewarden, Holland, and our hosts were the first squadron to take delivary of the F-16 aircraft in Europe. We were sadned to learn, some 4 weeks after we went back to our base at Gutersloh, Germany, that an F-16 and crew were lost in the North Sea. The aircraft was never recovered.
In 1987, while at Nellis AFB, an F-16 went down just off the runway, but this time the pilot banged out successfuly. Although I was on duty and on the flight line at the time, I somehow missed all the excitement, but the aircraft did not appear to be too badly damaged. From those who saw what went on, it appeared that the aircraft was doing a fly past at low level, but the aircraft touched down at very high speed. Very strange.
Also, after its introduction, the Harrier had a very high loss rate, about 12 a year at its worst. This was down to many factors, all of which were rectified, and I am glad to say that the loss rate is now much lower. In one incident that a Harrier crashed, the engine flamed out and the pilot tried to restart it. As the trees were getting closer, he decided to eject, but when he was safely parachuting down, he looked for his aircraft and couldn't see it below him! As he ejected, the engine restarted, and the aircraft was on a course towards East Germany, fully armed, and there was no pilot on board to fly it! Oh panic! Aircraft were scrambled to shoot it down, but that didn't work, so they flew close to it, fliping the wing tips until eventually the Harrier ran out of fuel and crashed in open fields.
But as to your enquiry regarding any problems with the F-16's, sorry I cannot help out, but I am sure that someone will. (If the CIA don't get to him first!)