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The 1982 Diamond Crash was the worst operational accident to befall the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Team involving show aircraft. [1] Four Northrop T-38 Talon jets crashed during operational training on 18 January 1982, killing all four pilots.
On September 8, 1981, the commander of the Thunderbirds since 1979, Lt. Col. David L. Smith, 40, was taking off in his T-38 Talon when, shortly after departure from Burke Lakefront Airport, it ingested several seagulls, stalling the engines.
The 1982 Diamond Crash was the worst operational accident to befall the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Team involving show aircraft. Four Northrop T-38 Talon jets crashed during operational training on 18 January 1982, killing all four pilots.
On January 18, 1982, during a training flight, four of Thunderbirds T-38 Talon aircraft crashed at Indian Springs, Nevada. The Diamond performed loop in a line abreast formation, when the leader's plane received mechanical failure, which does not allow it to exit from loop.
The diamond crash, which has been several years in the making, has been magnified by Covid-19, the coronavirus disease which has put the world in lock-down, forcing the closure of jewelry shops...
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Overweight Diamond crashes, killing all four aboard. The pilot rented the Diamond DA-40 with the intent to fly a multi-leg cross-county flight from his home base of Spanish Fork Municipal Airport/Woodhouse Field (KSPK) in Utah with three passengers.
(2 Jun 2016) An Air Force Thunderbird jet crashed south of Colorado Springs just after a flyover for a graduation of Air Force Academy cadets where President...
One of the world’s most popular types of rough diamonds has plunged into a pricing free fall, as an increasing number of Americans choose engagement rings made from lab-grown stones instead.
An increasing amount of consumers are turning to lab-grown diamonds, said Edahn Golan, the CEO of Edahn Golan Diamond Research & Data, with prices sinking 59% in the last three years. “The...