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31 August - A Mil Mi-8T helicopter crashed over Kamchatka, Russia. All 22 occupants onboard were killed. [17] 8 September – A Bell UH-1H Iroquois of the Salvadoran Air Force crashed in Pasaquina, El Salvador. The crash killed all 9 occupants, including Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the director of the National Civil Police. [18]
The Robinson crash-landed into a stationary helicopter, sending the propellers into the other aircraft before they eventually spun off. The helicopter spun out of control on Sunday morning. Jam Press
A U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17G-75-BO Flying Fortress, 44-38023, [207] [318] en route from Kearney Army Airfield, Nebraska, to Dow Field, Maine, for overseas deployment, crashes into Deer Mountain in Parkertown Township in North Oxford, Maine, during a thunderstorm, killing all ten crew: Sgt. James A. Benson, Sgt. Gerald V. Biddle, 2nd Lt ...
Engine failure while in the hover alongside USS Bigelow, ditched, rolled to starboard and sank in 48 ft of water. [119] 1970-07-26 Japanese Alps, Japan: Yomiuri Shimbun: While on a "picture taking mission" a news helicopter crashed in flames 500 ft below the summit of Mount Yari killing two of the three on board. Two nearby mountain climbers ...
Aircraft sank in about 260 feet of water (80 m). Pilot ejected safely and was recovered by Hkp 10 SAR helicopter. The accident was caused by a design flaw in the aircraft's control system, rendering it in a stalled mode after passing another aircraft's vortex. This was the first loss of a Gripen since the type became operational. [261] [262] 22 ...
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A Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron United States Air Force (USAF), from the Iceland Defense Force at Naval Air Station Keflavik, crashes in the Mosfellsheiði heath shortly after taking of from the crash site of a Cessna F172M Skyhawk that had crashed four hours earlier ...
View of the flight deck of USS Nimitz after the crash of the EA-6B. 26 May Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 159910, of VMAQ-2 Detachment Y, crash landed on the flight deck of USS Nimitz, off the Florida coast, [43] killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others (some reports say 42, some 48). The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last ...