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The first prototype of the Bell YAH-63, 73-22246, first flown on 1 October 1975, crashed in 1976, but a static test prototype was brought up to flight standard and, along with the second prototype, 73-22247, entered the flyoff against the Hughes entry, the Model 77, YAH-64.
The accident marked the second operational loss and first fatal crash for the C-5 Galaxy fleet, and is the third deadliest accident involving a U.S. military aircraft after the 1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown and Arrow Air Flight 1285. [citation needed]
All Japanese military aircraft were immediately grounded while investigation took place. 18 August US Army CH-47A 66-19023, c/n B.281, of the 4th Aviation Company, 15th Aviation Group, crashes near Pegnitz when the aft rotor blades fail due to fatigue and separate, killing all 37 on board.
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other western countries (including Australia, France, West Germany, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon ), on April 3–26, 1975. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 ...
16 July – Sikorsky S-76 A G-BJVX of Bristow Helicopters crashes into the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk following the loss of its rotor head in flight. All eleven people on board are killed. 19 August – A Mil Mi-26 of the Russian Air Force is shot down by Chechen separatists and crashes at Khankala, Chechnya.
On 23 December 1975, an Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter of the South African Air Force carrying a two-man crew and four Rhodesian Army officers crashed near Cashel in Rhodesia after it collided with a hawser cable mid-flight. The accident dealt a severe blow to the Rhodesian Security Forces, then fighting bitterly against ZANLA and ZIPRA ...
The 1975 Żabbar Avro Vulcan crash was a military aviation accident that occurred in Malta on 14 October 1975 when an Avro Vulcan B.2 bomber crashed after an aborted landing at RAF Luqa. The aircraft crashed in a residential area in Żabbar, and five crew members and one civilian (Vincenza Zammit) on the ground were killed. The two pilots ...