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Survivors. 176. 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.
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A U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-111E, 67-0117, c/n A1-162/E-3, out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashes in a rocky area of the Mojave Desert 12 miles S of Death Valley National Monument during test flight, both crew, pilot Maj. James W. Hurt, 34, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and WSO Maj. Robert J. Furman, 31, of New York City, killed ...
24 March. A Royal Air Force Handley Page Victor K.1A, XH618, of 57 Squadron collided with a RAF Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer XV156 during a simulated refuelling. Buccaneer hit the Victor's tailplane causing the aircraft to crash into the sea 95 miles E of Sunderland, County Durham.
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 ...
1964 T-39 shootdown incident. Tachikawa air disaster. 1975 Tân Sơn Nhứt C-5 accident. 1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash. 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision. 1974 United States Air Force WC-130 disappearance.
5 January 1950 VP199, a De Havilland Mosquito B.35 of No. 109 Squadron RAF flew into a hill at Micckle Fell in Yorkshire, two killed. [13] 6 January 1950 FX305. a North American Harvard T.2B of the Royal Air Force College crashed during aerobatics new Coleby Hall, Lincolnshire, one killed.
11. Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975 while on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 of the 124 people on board. [1] : 1 The crash was determined to be caused by wind shear caused by a microburst, but the failure of the ...