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The U.S. military has identified the Marine Corps pilot who was killed Thursday when his combat jet crashed near a San Diego base during a training flight. Maj. Andrew Mettler was piloting an F/A ...
A San Diego Fire-Rescue Department helicopter helped in the search between 3:48 a.m. and 4:21 a.m. and ground crews were on the scene near Interstate 15 until 6 a.m., officials said. The base is ...
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport.
The pilot of an F-18 US military jet that crashed during a training flight near San Diego in Southern California has died.. The crash took place at 11.54pm local time on Thursday, Marine Corps Air ...
On December 8, 2008 Lt Neubauer was piloting an F/A-18D-30-MC Hornet (Lot 12), BuNo 164017, [4] [5] [6] [3] from VMFAT-101, based at MCAS Miramar.Along with several other VMFAT-101 aircraft, he was conducting day and night carrier qualifications (catapult launches and tailhook arrested carrier landings) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln offshore 60 miles southwest of San Diego. [7]
Video of this accident is widely available on the internet. [258] [259] 16 June A United States Marine Corps F/A-18 fighter-attack jet crashes, killing a student pilot and injuring a flight instructor. The aircraft had taken off from the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma but was from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, stationed in San ...
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The 1959 San Diego F3H crash was the crash of a United States Navy McDonnell F3H-2N Demon in San Diego, California, on 4 December 1959.The pilot, Ensign Albert Joseph Hickman from VF-121, chose not to eject from the stricken aircraft, piloting it away from populated areas of Clairemont, including an elementary school, saving "as many as 700 people" on the ground, according to one estimate.