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The Lockheed YF-12 is an American Mach 3+ capable, high-altitude interceptor prototype, developed and manufactured by American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. The interceptor was developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s as a potential replacement for the F-106 Delta Dart interceptor for the United States Air Force (USAF).
The dispatcher gave clearance for a direct landing on heading 30°. The crew then made a right turn to heading 110° and proceeded towards the airfield. As there was a 67-meter-high elevator ahead in the flight path, the crew adjusted their course to the right and was now flying at an 80° angle to the extended runway centerline.
On 12 July 2012, a Y-12-II of the Mauritanian Air Force crashed while transporting gold, killing all 7 occupants. [49] On 12 May 2014, a Y-12-II of the Kenyan Air Force crashed in El Wak, Kenya. The airplane operated on a flight from Mandera to Nairobi with stops at El Wak and Garissa. Preliminary information suggests that one pilot was killed ...
On June 12, an investigative commission arrived at the crash site. Investigators determined that the airliner, flying on a magnetic course of 280° at an altitude of 1,725 meters, 132 kilometers south of the route and 204 kilometers from the Krasnoyarsk airport, crashed into the rocky eastern slope of the mountain at an angle of 40-45 ...
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
Dec. 8, police officers and firefighters responded to the incident at around 4:30 p.m., and the 12-year-old boy's body was recovered from the water about three hours later.
Irwin was also a developmental test pilot for the Lockheed YF-12, the Mach 3 fighter-interceptor variant which preceded the SR-71 Blackbird. His first flight of that aircraft was on the day that one of his five children was born. [7] In 1961, a student pilot that Irwin was training crashed the plane they were flying on a training mission.
The crash was reported just before 2 p.m. and occurred slightly to the east of the airport, according to ABC News' Los Angeles station. Small plane misses runway at California airport, wraps ...