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The Diamond Crash, the worst accident in U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Team history involving show aircraft, when four Northrop T-38A Talons, Numbers 1–4, 68–8156, -8175, -8176 and -8184, crashed during pre-season training on Range 65 [64] at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada (now Creech Air Force Base). While ...
A mid-air collision between a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon caused a ground crash at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The F-16 hit and destroyed a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter parked on the tarmac, and flaming wreckage careened into paratroopers preparing for a practice drop, killing 24 and injuring many ...
A flight of four Lockheed F-104G Starfighters of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) crash in formation into a field near the village of Ralingen near the border with Luxembourg, ~12 miles S of Bitburg, West Germany, shortly after take-off from Bitburg Air Base, killing all four pilots. The four jets flown by an Italian Air ...
U.S. Air Force Lockheed TU-2S, 80-1068, 'article 068', assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base crashes in a rural area near the Sutter Buttes in Sutter County, California while on a training mission. While recovering from a stall as part of the training flight, the interviewing pilot ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Data retrieved from an investigation into a collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in ...
The aircraft returned damaged to Spangdahlem Air Base, [13] but it apparently never flew again. The USAF continued using the F-117 during the campaign. [ 14 ] This incident was also reported by another F-117A pilot in 2020, but it remains classified and only some details were revealed.
The Navy has identified the two crew members who went missing and were later declared dead after their EA-18G Growler jet crashed in Washington state last week. Naval aviator Lt. Serena “Dug ...
Spangdahlem Air Base (IATA: SPM, ICAO: ETAD, former code EDAD) is a NATO air base with the United States Air Force as a tenant constructed between 1951 and 1953 and located near the small German town of Spangdahlem, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-northeast of the city of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate.