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Memorial stone of Cliff Burton, near the site of the bus crash in Dörarp. Dörarp is a small locality (according to the definition of Statistics Sweden) in Ljungby Municipality, Sweden. In 2005, Dörarp had 145 inhabitants. Dörarp is also the site of heavy metal band Metallica's tour bus accident during the Damage, Inc. Tour on September 27 ...
Sikorsky CH-53C, 68-10933, c/n 65–231, Knife 13, [16] of the 21st Special Operations Squadron, departs from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base with a crew of five and 18 USAF Security Police on board to assist in the recovery operation of the SS Mayaguez. The helicopter disappears from the airfield's departure radar 40 miles W of the ...
The 14 survivors remaining at the crash site were rescued in a mission that ended on 23 December. The story was to spawn a critically acclaimed book in 1974, along with several film adaptations. 16 October A USAF Convair F-106B-50-CO Delta Dart, 57-2528, [136] of the 4756th Air Defense Wing, Tyndall AFB, Florida, was lost in
The Diamond Crash, the worst accident in U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Team history involving show aircraft, when four Northrop T-38A Talons, Numbers 1–4, 68–8156, -8175, -8176 and -8184, crashed during pre-season training on Range 65 [64] at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada (now Creech Air Force Base). While ...
A military aircraft crashed near Albuquerque’s main airport and a US Air Force base Tuesday afternoon, and the pilot – having ejected before the wreck – was sent to a hospital with serious ...
1950 First of only two prototypes of the Fairchild XNQ-1 Navy trainer contender, BuNo 75725, written off in a crash. [1]5 January A Boeing B-50A Superfortress, 46-021, [2] c/n 15741 [3] of the 3200th Proof Test Group out of Eglin AFB, crash lands in the Choctawhatchee Bay, northwest Florida, killing two of the 11 crew.
A military fighter jet on its way to an Air Force base in California crashed Tuesday near the international airport in New Mexico's largest city, sending up a large plume of smoke and injuring the ...
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 ...