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A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-135B Stratolifter, AF Ser. No. 62-4136, of the Military Air Transport Service, delivering a load of ammunition from McGuire AFB, New Jersey, to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of the military response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, stalls and crashes short of the runway, killing all seven crew. This was the ...
Crash site of B-17 Early on the morning of May 16, 1946, a U.S. Army B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed into White Hill (a.k.a. "White's Hill") near Fairfax, California . Two men were killed and six seriously injured. [ 1 ]
The location of the aircraft was mistook by air traffic control, leading to premature directions to descend that led to a crash into terrain that was not visible to the crew until just before the collision. February 18, 1969 35 0 0 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708: Mount Whitney, near Lone Pine: California: Douglas DC-3
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The crash occurs in a storm 60 miles SW of San Diego at 0226 hrs., as one aircraft flies to relieve the other, which had been airborne for seven hours. Search-and-rescue workers discover wreckage from the downed aircraft but all 27 crewmen are lost, 13 on one and 14 on the other.
A United States Navy Sikorsky HH-60H Seahawk crashed into the Pacific Ocean 16 miles (26 km) SW of San Diego, California. The aircraft was on a routine training flight and returning to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz when the accident occurred off of Point Loma, California, killing all 5 members of its crew. Only 3 bodies were recovered.
A military helicopter caught fire during a training mission and was forced to make an emergency landing at California’s Camp Pendleton, authorities said. The aircraft — a CH53-E Super Stallion...