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On 19 October 2022, an F-35A crashed at the north end of the runway at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The pilot safely ejected and was unharmed. The crash was caused by errors in the air data system from the wake turbulence of a preceding aircraft, which resulted in several rapid transitions between the primary and backup flight-conditions data ...
Tarrant Tabor F1765 after its crash in 1919. ... List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft before 1925; List of accidents and incidents involving ...
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
In September 2021, a Navy trainer jet crashed into a Lake Worth neighborhood during a landing approach to the base after the aircraft’ s single engine ingested a 4.5-pound vulture. Within 30 ...
When including ground fatalities, American Airlines holds this distinction, with the 2001 crashes of Flight 11 and Flight 77 on 11 September, and Flight 587 on 12 November, with a combined total of approximately 2,000 deaths, including 416 people on the three aircraft. [4] The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11 ...
The pilot was able to safely eject from the aircraft before the crash. [231] 8 May A Mig-21 of the Indian Air Force crashed into a home in Hanumangarh, Rajasthan. The pilot was able to eject from the aircraft before it crashed, while 3 people on the ground died after the crash. [232] 13 May
The troubled F-35 Lightning II family of fighter jets is struggling to stay in the air.. A new report finds that the F-35 isn’t keeping up with combat readiness goals and fell behind previous ...
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...