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U.S. Navy North American T-2C Buckeye, BuNo 158876, of VT-19, crashes into Vultures' Row on the island of training carrier USS Lexington during a wave-off approach, operating in the Gulf of Mexico 22 miles (35 km) south of NAS Pensacola, Florida, killing five and injuring 20. Killed were the student pilot, three seamen, and a civilian employee ...
The crash was attributed to a simulation of asymmetric flight resulting in a sudden and violent departure from controlled flight. 1989 – U.S. Navy North American T-2C Buckeye, BuNo 158876, of VT-19, crashes into Vultures' Row on the island of training carrier USS Lexington during a wave-off approach, operating in the Gulf of Mexico 22 miles S ...
The T-2 Buckeye (along with the TF-9J Cougar) replaced the T2V-1/T-1A SeaStar, though the T-1 continued in some uses into the 1970s. A T-2C being parked at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, on August 30, 2005. All T-2 Buckeyes were manufactured by North American at Air Force Plant 85, located just south of Port Columbus Airport in Columbus ...
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Somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, on the USS Lexington, 10/29/89 – A T-2 Buckeye training jet proceeds to land on the carrier, but the pilot suddenly loses control and crashes upside down onto other planes. Five are killed, including the pilot.
Lexington in her original configuration, November 1943. The ship was laid down as Cabot on 15 July 1941 by Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts.In May 1942, USS Lexington (CV-2), which had been built in the same shipyard two decades earlier, was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
One of the vehicles involved in the crash was fleeing from a traffic stop with police. Driver who died in Lexington’s first deadly crash of the year has been identified Skip to main content