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The flight took off from Cherry Point at 14:07 EDT, with the callsign "Yanky 72." [7] The aircraft was en route to Naval Air Facility El Centro in California. [8] [9] At 1549:24 EDT, the crew made a routine transmission to Memphis ARTCC, after that, nothing more was heard from the flight. Radar contact was abruptly lost minutes later.
This crash was, like the previous one, caused by a PIO. 10 August A McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, BuNo 162955, of VMA-231, crashed on the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina as the pilot was doing "touch and go" landings. The aircraft's flaps jammed when moisture got into the flap controller causing it to short ...
Pilot was killed after he flew into a 200-foot-thick cloud at the start of a short trip back to base at Cherry Point, North Carolina, when his AV-8A Harrier simply went into the water without explanation. [15] 1 May 1980 United States Marine Corps: AV-8A Harrier Pilot was killed during a vertical takeoff at Cherry Point, North Carolina ...
A Marine Corps pilot was confirmed dead Friday after the crash of a combat jet near a San Diego base, the service said in a statement. The F/A-18D Hornet went down at 11:54 p.m. Thursday near ...
A Morehead City, North Carolina, woman died of burns on 26 August which she received when a USMC Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 160704, c/n P-67, 'CY-11', of VMAQ-2, US Marine Corps, [130] crashed into the front porch of her neighbor's house on Thursday night, 25 August, after the aircraft caught fire and smoke in the cockpit forced the crew of ...
Congress authorized Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point on 9 July 1941, with an initial appropriation of $14,990,000 for construction and clearing of an 8,000 acre (32 km 2) tract of swamps, farms and timberland. Actual clearing of the site began on 6 August 1941, with extensive drainage and malaria control work.
This was the real beginning of MCAS Cherry Point's flight operations and a very important moment in the development of SOES. Aircraft Engineering Squadron 46 (AES-46) was commissioned on 6 January 1943 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. [1]
Marine Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231) is a United States Marine Corps fixed wing attack squadron that consists of AV-8B Harrier jets.The squadron, known as the "Ace of Spades", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina and fall under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 14 (MAG-14) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).