Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
A Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron United States Air Force (USAF), from the Iceland Defense Force at Naval Air Station Keflavik, crashes in the Mosfellsheiði heath shortly after taking of from the crash site of a Cessna F172M Skyhawk that had crashed four hours earlier ...
A USAF Convair F-106B-55-CO Delta Dart, 57-2538, c/n 8-27-32, [136] of the Air Defense Weapons Center, Tyndall AFB, Florida, was lost in a crash, [138] pilot KWF. This second accident in three days was to be the last fatal Tyndall accident until the loss of a Lockheed T-33A on 30 May 1975. [139] 30 October
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
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.
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 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 ...
30 March. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, 59-2576, of the 341st Bombardment Squadron, 4038th Strategic Wing, [73] Dow Air Force Base, Maine, exploded in flight at 2115 hrs. with the wreckage falling near Denton, North Carolina. Debris was scattered over a ten-mile (16 km) area, starting fires in woods and fields.