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The VSS Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California.
On 9 February 2024, an Eurocopter EC130 crashed in the Mojave Desert near Nipton, California around 10:00 p.m. PST. Six people were on board, including Nigerian banker Herbert Wigwe and former Nigerian Exchange Group Plc Chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo. There were no survivors. [1]
The CEO of a major Nigerian bank, along with his wife and son, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border late Friday night ...
A U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-111E, 67-0117, c/n A1-162/E-3, out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashed in a rocky area of the Mojave Desert 12 miles S of Death Valley National Monument during a test flight, [62] both crew, pilot Maj. James W. Hurt, 34, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and WSO Maj. Robert J. Furman, 31, of New York City ...
Officials with Naval Air Facility El Centro confirmed a Navy helicopter crashed on a training range. There were four crew members aboard. One was injured.
The Marines, part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, were confirmed dead Thursday following “an aviation mishap” with the MV-22B Osprey that crashed Wednesday. 5 Marines dead in Osprey crash in ...
"PORTERVILLE – A Navy guided missile launched from the Mojave Desert in Southern California broke away from its guiding aircraft Monday and crashed into an orange grove 400 yards from a farm house near here. Fragments of the craft, which plowed a furrow 25 feet (7.6 m) long and 10 feet (3.0 m) deep through the grove, were scattered over a 100 ...
The Controlled Impact Demonstration (or colloquially the Crash In the Desert) was a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that intentionally crashed a remotely controlled Boeing 720 aircraft to acquire data and test new technologies to aid passenger and crew survival.