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Both aircraft were members of the 23rd Wing, which was the host unit at Pope AFB at the time. The aircraft were on short final approach to runway 23 at an altitude of about 300 feet (90 m) above ground level. The nose of the F-16D severed the C-130E's right elevator.
It would take more than a year before reports would tell what happened on March 23, 1994. Reporters, investigations and a crash at Pope Air Force Base: 30 years after the Green Ramp Disaster Skip ...
05/23: 2,895.9 metres ... Formerly known as Pope Air Force Base, ... In 2019, degradation of Pope Field's runway and lighting system, many components of which were ...
Patch of the 23d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. The 23d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron was a unit of the United States Air Force.It was constituted on 24 June 1994, and activated on 1 July 1994 at Pope AFB, NC, assigned to the 23d Operations Group subordinate to Air Combat Command.
The 317th Operations Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last stationed at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina as part of Air Mobility Command.It was activated in 1992 during the Air Force's Objective Wing reorganization, and inactivated the following year when all Air Force units at Pope were assigned to the 23d Wing.
Pope Army Airfield dedicated the Airman’s Center building in honor of Senior Airman Goodman, who served at Pope Air Force Base from 2006 until her death in 2009 while deployed to Afghanistan.
On 1 July 1996, the 74th Fighter Squadron's F-16C/D Fighting Falcons were transferred to the 27th Fighter Wing's 524th Fighter Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, and the squadron transitioned to A/OA-10 Thunderbolt IIs received from the 20th Fighter Wing's 55th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base. This gave the 23rd Group a 2nd ...
The F-16D skidded into a C-141B Starlifter, AF Ser No. 66-0173, at the Green Ramp, Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, where paratroopers from adjacent Fort Bragg were preparing for a drop mission. The ensuing explosion sent debris raining down on soldiers and airmen waiting to board the C-141.