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A fleet of 11 aircraft delivered 2,600 military medical staff to Wuhan. The PLAAF fleet of 11 aircraft consists of 6 Y-20s, 3 Il-76s, and 2 Y-9s transport aircraft. [34] [35] This is Y-20's first civilian mission, signaling the increasing military involvement in pandemic response. [36] On 5 June 2021, PLAAF transport aircraft fleet, including Y ...
This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office, the Air Safety Network, or the Dutch Scramble Website Brush and Dustpan Database ...
The pilot failed to remove the gust locks on the right aileron and rudder before takeoff, and the baggage compartment was overloaded, which together caused the aircraft to crash during takeoff. The passengers were the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team. October 20, 1977 6 20 20 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: near Gillsburg: Mississippi ...
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 arresting cable, while ignoring a wave-off command.
The first major U.S. commercial crash in almost 16 years Just one day before the deadly collision, another regional jet about to land at Reagan had a close call with a helicopter.
An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft operated by the Russian Air Force crashed in Russia's Ivanovo Oblast, some 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Moscow. [374] [375] According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, the aircraft was carrying eight crew and seven passengers. [376] 14 March
Crews began the complex job of lifting American Airlines Flight 5432 from the Potomac River after it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.
A USAF Douglas C-124C-DL Globemaster II, 52-1078, c/n 43987, of the 1501st Air Transport Wing, crashes just after takeoff from Travis AFB, California, killing three of the seven crew on board. Aircraft stalled at 100 feet (30 m), dropped one wing and plunged to the ground just southwest of the base. Airframe splits into three sections, burns.