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Shot down by a surface-to-air missile. 23 February 1991 United States Marine Corps: AV-8B Harrier II Shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Kuwait, pilot is killed. 27 February 1991 United States Marine Corps: AV-8B Harrier II Shot down on the final day of the Persian Gulf War by anti-aircraft artillery, pilot (Woody) is killed. 25 ...
The accident is the RAF's fourth-worst peacetime disaster. [1] [2] [3] In 1995, an RAF board of inquiry ruled that it was impossible to establish the exact cause of the accident. This ruling was overturned by two senior reviewing officers, who stated that the pilots were guilty of gross negligence for flying too fast and too low in thick fog.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
MOD Boscombe Down (ICAO: EGDM) is the home of a military aircraft testing site, on the south-eastern outskirts of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.The site is managed by QinetiQ, [2] the private defence company created as part of the breakup of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 2001 by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Later, O.J. pleaded no contest to spousal battery and claimed the incident was no big deal. In 1992, the two divorced. Nicole was awarded $433,750 and $10,000 per month in child support.
More recent analysis, however, indicates that the Boscombe Down crash was a towed missile decoy. [12] An unsubstantiated claim on the Horsted Keynes Village Web Site purports to show photos of the trail left after an unusual sonic boom was heard over the village in July 2002. In 2005 the information was used in a BBC report about the Aurora ...
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Cause of accident never satisfactorily determined. [205] 21 September Grumman company test pilot Tom Attridge shoots himself down in a Grumman F11F Tiger, BuNo 138620, during a Mach 1.0 20 degree dive from 22,000 feet (6,700 m) to 7,000 feet (2,100 m). He fires two bursts from the fighter's 20 mm cannon during the descent and as he reaches ...