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The United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52D Stratofortress (serial number 55-0103) of the 4252d Strategic Wing had a full bomb load and broke up and caught fire after the aircraft aborted takeoff at Kadena Air Base while it was conducting an Operation Arc Light bombing mission to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. [4]
B-52H crash at Andersen Air Force Base. On 19 May, a B-52H (tail number 60-0047) assigned to the 69th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Wing, from Minot, North Dakota, overran the end of the runway during an aborted takeoff, crashed and burned at Andersen AFB, Guam. During takeoff, the crew noticed birds flying over the runway.
Since November 1954, the 18th Wing under various designations has been the main United States Air Force operational unit at Kadena Air Base. Over the past 50 years, the 18th has maintained assigned aircraft, crews, and supporting personnel in a high state of readiness for tactical air requirements of Fifth Air Force and the Pacific Air Forces ...
Three crew are killed in crash of U.S. Air Force Boeing B-47E Stratojet, AF Ser. No. 52-0615, of the 22d Bomb Wing, at March AFB, California. This is the last fatal crash at that base until 19 October 1978. [107] Pilot was Major Clarence Weldon Garrett. 8 January
1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash; 1968 Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash; A. Aer Lingus Flight 712; Aeroflot Flight 15; Aeroflot Flight 1668; Air France Flight 212 (1968)
A General Dynamics F-111A, 65-5703, c/n A1-21, [134] of the 6510th Test Wing, used in spin tests out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashed, [52] impacting in the desert approximately 10 miles from the base in a near vertical dive at roughly 500 knots after the crew ejected in their escape capsule. The crew survived.
The Air Force has officially declared all eight airmen who were aboard the CV-22 Osprey that crashed last week off the coast of Yakushima Island, Japan, deceased, as they transition from search ...
At 10:40 a.m., a United States Air Force F-100D Super Sabre, piloted by 34-year-old Captain John G. Schmitt Jr. from Chalmers, Indiana, became uncontrollable during a training or test flight from Kadena Air Base located in the towns of Kadena and Chatan. Schmitt ejected from the aircraft, landing safely and unhurt.