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The first manned flight test, launched from the Lager Heuberg military training area near Stetten am kalten Markt, of Bachem Ba 349 Natter M23 (a vertically-launched bomber interceptor) failed when Oberleutnant Lothar Sieber, 22 (a volunteer), was killed as rocket-powered aircraft reached about 1,650 feet (500 m). The cockpit canopy detached ...
The aircraft from the 1st Composite Air Division, North Caucasus Military District suffered a mechanical fault forcing the 2 crew to eject safely after several aborted landings. The Russian Airforce fleet of Sukhoi Su-24 was grounded for technical inspection after 2 accidents in a week.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
Five men are killed and two missing in the crash of Consolidated B-24J-40-CO Liberator, 42-73365, [187] (the first block 40-CO airframe) of the 776th Bomb Squadron, 464th Bomb Group, Pocatello Army Air Field, Idaho, piloted by Lt. Richard A. Hedges, [182] when it crashes on the grounds of the Idaho National Laboratory, [188] 40 miles NW of the ...
The first military aircraft of the young air force of Suriname (SAF) was a Hughes 500 – Model 369D helicopter (c/n 117-0193D), simply registered SAF-100 and being used for light observation tasks. Unfortunately this aircraft was written off on 31 March 1982 killing all five occupants (Major Henk Fernandes, second lieutenant Norman de Miranda ...
Flight/aircraft Crash site Cause/circumstances Aaliyah: United States 2001 Actress, singer, and model Cessna 402: Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas Maximum takeoff weight of airplane substantially exceeded, pilot under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. [1] Michael J. Adams: United States 1967 test pilot X-15 Flight 3-65-97
A Hawker Hunter, an ex-military jet aircraft being operated as a warbird crashed onto a major trunk road during a display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 persons and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since the 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash, which killed 31 people.