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At 19:10 local time on 29 October 2009 (02:10 on 30 October UTC), a Lockheed HC-130H Hercules aircraft of the United States Coast Guard and a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter of the United States Marine Corps collided in mid-air. The location of the accident was 24 kilometres (15 mi) east off San Clemente Island, California.
On the morning of Nov. 16, 2016, Sills dialed 911 and said that he’d found his wife’s body at the bottom of the stairs in their home in San Clemente, roughly 60 miles south of Los Angeles ...
Two U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-2 Catalinas, BuNo 0462 of VP-13 and BuNo 0463 of VP-11 collide in midair off San Clemente, California, killing 3 officers and 8 enlisted men, 11 of the 14 on board.: [102] [125] [126] An Associated Press account states that the aircraft collided at 2037 hrs., 70 miles SW of Point Loma, and that the survivors were ...
A contrail from an airplane flying towards an observer can create the illusion of a vertically moving object, as happened with a contrail off the coast of San Clemente, California on December 31, 2009, which some observers mistook for a missile launch.
US Navy Kaman SH-2F Seasprite, BuNo 161910, assigned to HSL-35 NAS North Island, suffers tail structure failure and loss of directional control and crashes into ocean approximately 30 miles (48 km) off Point Loma while returning from weapons training exercise at NALF San Clemente Island. Co-pilot (Lt. Walt Hogan) dies in the crash; the other ...
9 March 1955. William Edward McLaughlin crashed fighter jet while taking off an aircraft carrier off the coast of California. [citation needed] 11 March. Third of 13 North American X-10s, GM-19309, c/n 3, on X-10 flight number 14, out of Edwards AFB, California, first flight of refitted c/n 3, the static test article.
During the presidency of Richard Nixon, MCAS El Toro was used for flights to and from his "Western White House" at San Clemente, California. On 9 August 1974, after resigning the Presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Richard and Pat Nixon flew from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland to El Toro aboard VC-137C SAM 27000.
This is a sortable list of multisport and triathlon fatalities. It contains information on athletes, spectators or staff who died as a result of participating in a multisport event or triathlon. Motorcycle rider died in collision with athlete. Bicycle accident, head, rib and other injuries. Taken to hospital, passed away on 5/29/2023.