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Scott Francis O'Grady (born October 12, 1965) is a former United States Air Force fighter pilot.On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina by a 2K12 Kub (NATO designation SA-6 "Gainful") mobile SAM launcher and forced to eject from his F-16C into hostile territory.
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
[16] [15] Later that day, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs confirmed an Indian pilot was missing in action after a MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft was lost while engaging with Pakistani jets. [17] [14] [18] A statement released by the IAF claimed that before the crash, Varthaman had shot down a PAF Lockheed Martin F-16.
A portrait Ukrainian F-16 pilot Oleksiy Mes is held during the rite of burial of the deceased tactical aviation pilot, on the Day of Remembrance for Fallen Heroes, as a farewell was held on August ...
The pilot of the F-16 ejected safely, but both people in the Cessna were killed. [297] On 11 October 2018, an F-16 MLU from the 2nd Tactical Wing of the Belgian Air Component, on the apron at Florennes Air Station, was hit by a gun burst from a nearby F-16, whose cannon was fired inadvertently during maintenance. The aircraft caught fire and ...
Eighteen months after Speicher went missing in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, friend and fellow U.S. Navy pilot Buddy Harris married Joanne. They had two children. [5] [6] Speicher's father had been a fighter pilot in World War II. Speicher went on his first airplane flight when he was five years old. [3]
A Greek Air Force F-84F exploded over Larissa, three people on the ground killed. 7 October BA-55 a Belgian Air Force Dassault Mirage 5BA crashed into a quarry at Bierset, pilot killed. 9 October A USMC F-4 is lost in the South China Sea, flying from Cubi Point NAS in the Philippines, both crew lost at sea. [106] 13 October
Pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla along with Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson, radar operator, disappeared when their United States Air Force F-89 Scorpion was scrambled from Kincheloe Air Force Base, and subsequently went missing over Lake Superior, while intercepting an unknown aircraft in Canadian airspace close to the Canada–United ...