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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 ...
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 [63] at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada (now Creech Air Force Base). While ...
Sikorsky CH-53C, 68-10933, c/n 65–231, Knife 13, [16] of the 21st Special Operations Squadron, departs from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base with a crew of five and 18 USAF Security Police on board to assist in the recovery operation of the SS Mayaguez. The helicopter disappears from the airfield's departure radar 40 miles W of the ...
The sign of the US Air Force Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany (Getty Images) Two US servicemen were arrested after a man was fatally stabbed during an argument at a carnival in Germany , according to ...
29th Crash Rescue Boat Flight, 18 August 1955 - ca. 8 September 1955 Stations ... Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, 31 March 1992 – present [13]
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 Air Force grounded a set of Osprey aircraft after one of the planes crashed in waters off of Japan earlier this week, killing one and leaving seven still missing, officials said Friday.
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.