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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
1980 – Spectacular crash of USMC AV-8A Harrier at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina. During a vertical takeoff the aircraft rolled, dropped to the runway, bounced into a ditch, burst into flames, flipped, slid through a hangar and into a parking lot, where it damaged more than twenty vehicles.
The squadron was reestablished at MCAS El Toro and received its first F8U Crusaders in the summer of 1958. it trained in 1958 and 1959 was then assigned to USS Oriskany. In 1964, the squadron returned to MCAS Cherry Point, where they received their present designation of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 (VMFA-323).
With the most diverse training requirements in the Marine Corps, the squadron has achieved impressive milestones. Since its commissioning, VMGRT-253 has flown over 19 years without a class "A" mishap while teaching the least experienced aircrew, making over 5000 landings a year and achieving 55,000 total flight hours in the oldest aircraft in ...