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The helicopter crashed during a training flight, said Cmdr. Stephen Honda, a spokesman for the Navy's Atlantic Fleet air force. Meanwhile, two Army fliers were killed Friday when their Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopter crashed during a training exercise near Fort Irwin, California, an Army spokesman said. [81] 13 July
Fleet Air Gunnery Unit was opened. Through the years, Navy El Centro has had several names: Naval Air Facility, Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, Naval Air Station, and the National Parachute Test Range. For the first 35 years, the mission of NAF El Centro was devoted to aeronautical escape system testing, evaluation, and design.
NAF El Centro, California. Blue Angel F-18 crashes five miles (8.0 km) south of Brawley California. Pilot safely ejected. 27 February Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC.1 ZA721 crashed in the Falkland Islands, all seven on board killed. [199] March Douglas A-4 Skyhawk crashed in desert near Fallon, Nevada, during a dog fight. Aileron on wing ...
A U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-111E, 67-0117, c/n A1-162/E-3, out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashed in a rocky area of the Mojave Desert 12 miles S of Death Valley National Monument during a test flight, [62] both crew, pilot Maj. James W. Hurt, 34, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and WSO Maj. Robert J. Furman, 31, of New York City ...
The helicopter was on a mission in a region that had been badly damaged during the most recent earthquake. All four crew members were taken to hospital, three of them with serious injuries. [36] 29 March A US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed at Forward Operating Base Atgar in the Zabul province of Afghanistan. [37] 31 March
The head of El Salvador's police forces and a man accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement were killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed on Sunday night, the ...
VA-174 was the largest aviation squadron in the U.S. Navy. Commander John McCain was the Executive Officer and Commanding Officer of VA-174 in the mid-1970s. The squadron also had a permanent West Coast detachment(VA-174Det)which had their own squadron patch. First located at MCAS Yuma and later relocated to NAF El Centro.
The three servicemembers aboard the helicopter died in the accident. [290] 16 September An Aermacchi MB-339 of the Italian Air Force's Frecce Tricolori aerobatic demonstration team crashed near Caselle Airport, Turin, Italy. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and survived. A 5-year-old girl was killed on the ground, and three others were injured.