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On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The ...
A crash at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire on 26 September 1994 appeared closely linked to "black" missions, according to a report in AirForces Monthly. Further investigation was hampered by USAF aircraft flooding into the base. Special Air Service personnel arrived in plainclothes in an Agusta 109.
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).
In 1997, an AFM report that a military aircraft crash during takeoff at Boscombe Down on 26 September 1994 involved a classified Aurora aircraft prompted denials from the Ministry of Defence and the United States Defense Department. [3] [4] Sister publications from Key Publishing include Air International, Air Enthusiast, Airliner World, and ...
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 ...
A C-141 transport plane is shown on March 23, 1994, after an F-16 fighter jet crashed into the plane as it was parked on the Pope Air Force Base flight line.
28 May – Miles Marathon G-AGPD of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment operating a test flight from RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire crashed near Amesbury killing the two crew. [72] 10 June – Hargreaves Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide G-AIUI crashed at Cronk ny Arrey Laa, Isle of Man. Seven of the nine people on board were ...
A crash in 1994 The French-Italian ATR 72 has “checkered record” Goelz said. On October 31, 1994, an ATR 72 crashed in Roselawn, Indiana; the American Eagle flight 4184 had encountered severe ...