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On 4 April 1975, [note 1] a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy participating in the first mission of Operation Babylift crashed on approach during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. The cause was ascribed to loss of flight control due to explosive decompression and structural failure. The accident marked the second operational loss ...
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A U.S. Army Bell UH-1H Iroquois from Fort Rucker Army Base, Alabama, on a routine training flight crashes and burns three miles SE of Marianna Municipal Airport, Marianna, Florida, killing all three crew, an instructor pilot and two students, military officials said. The identities of the victims was being withheld pending notification of next ...
United States Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert M. Bond (1929–1984), Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command, is killed in a high-speed ejection from a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, out of Groom Lake, Nevada at 1018 hrs., which was initially reported to be an F-117A Stealth fighter.
US Army UH-1 Huey helicopter 66-15230 crashed near Rock Springs, Wyoming, having taken off that morning from Cheyenne, Wyoming. The aircraft had undergone maintenance at the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas and was being ferried to Boise, Idaho. The pilot, Army Captain Bruce R. Larson of Clearwater, Florida, was killed when it went down. [121 ...
A military instructor and a student pilot were injured, ... The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a ...
1960. Three United States Army de Havilland Canada U-1A Otters, of the 329th Engineer Detachment, flew from Wheelus Air Base to Bengazi, Libya, but 55-2974 disappeared over the Gulf of Sirte in the Mediterranean in a storm Prague. Aircraft never found. Search suspended 8 January at 2030 hrs.
t. e. Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover of the city by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in the Fall of Saigon. It was carried out on 29–30 April 1975, during the last days of the Vietnam War.