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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 ...
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 ...
List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan; List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War; List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Libyan Civil War (2011)
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.
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 ...
An Esercito Italiano (Italian Army) Agusta-Bell 205 crashes in the Val Ridanna, pilot killed. 6 July A United States Navy F-4S Phantom II, BuNo. 157279, upgraded from an F-4J-42-MC, crashed off USS Forrestal following failure of the catapult strap, pilot missing. No mention of fate of the RIO. [97] 13 July A United States Marine Corps F-4S ...
Pilot was Maj. James O. Rudolph, 36, who was dragged from the crash site with severe burns and conveyed to Brook Army Hospital at San Antonio where he succumbed to his injuries 16 April 1956. Eddie Wilkerson, a high school tennis coach, whose car was narrowly missed by the bomber, stopped and pulled the pilot from the wreckage. [ 169 ]
A United States Air Force Boeing B-29A-65-BN Superfortress, 44-62164, crashes at night. Suspected reason – Fuel line issues. The crew bailed out over a farmer's field 8 miles (13 km) N/5.5 miles W of Onaga, Kansas, United States. The captain died in the crash and one airman perished when his parachute failed to open.