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Mikoyan Chief Test Pilot Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Fedotov and his navigator Valeriy Zaitsev were both killed. 26 April United States Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert M. Bond (1929–1984), Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command, is killed in a high-speed ejection from a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, out of Groom ...
Lt. Col. Michael V. Love, 37, chief USAF test pilot on the Martin-Marietta X-24B program, is killed in the crash of a McDonnell RF-4C Phantom II, 64-1002, the sixth RF-4C, of the Air Force Flight Test Center, [48] on a dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, after take-off on a proficiency flight when his ejection seat malfunctions. Navigator ...
Sixteenth Air Force (16 AF)'s original ancestor was the Joint United States Military Group, Air Administration (Spain), which was established on 20 May 1954. It was attached to the Joint U.S. Military Group, which oversaw implementation of the 1953 Spanish-American Defense Cooperation Agreement.
Killed on a combat flight during Operation Aphrodite: Dorjee Khandu: India 2011 Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Eurocopter: Lobotang, Arunachal Pradesh, India Poor Condition of the Helicopter. Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. United States 1958 Korean War ace pilot and test pilot Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: Edwards Air Force Base: Charles Kingsford ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the commander of the country’s air force Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a ...
It was also slated to carry Hungarian refugees back to Charleston AFB, South Carolina. 12 of 38 onboard killed. Air Force headquarters at Wiesbaden, Germany, said that a manifest showed 38 persons – 27 passengers and only 11 crewmen – were aboard the aircraft. Amongst the fatalities were Major Clyde W. Ellis, aircraft commander; Master ...
Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24M, RF-90932, c/n 0615326, '83 white', is shot down near the Syria–Turkey border by a Turkish Air Force F-16 after it entered Turkish airspace. Both the pilot and weapons system officer eject; the weapons system officer, Konstantin Murakhtin, is rescued by Syrian/Russian special forces, but the pilot, Lt Col Oleg ...
A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-135B Stratolifter, 61-0332, crashed on landing at Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, after striking a 42-foot pole a quarter mile short of the runway, and hitting a taxi. 84 on board, 5 survivors, passengers in taxi also killed. Date of 11 August 1964 cited by Joe Baugher.