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The Cessna pilot was killed in the accident and, although both Jaguar pilots ejected, the front seat pilot did not survive. The rear seat pilot in the Jaguar suffered serious injuries. [59] 30 October 1991 XV421 A McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2 of 1453 Flight dived into the sea 50 miles from Falkland Islands during combat exercise. [59] 1992
List of fatal accidents and incidents involving Royal Air Force aircraft from 1945; 0–9. 1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash; 1943 RAF Hudson crash;
Lockheed test pilot Bob Ridenhauer survives with serious injuries and retires from test flying. He has to be cut out of the overturned cockpit section. This was the first loss of a production Nighthawk and occurred prior to Air Force acceptance. This was almost exactly the same wiring mistake that caused the loss of a Lockheed A-12 on 28 ...
CIA pilot Mele Vojvodich, Jr. takes Lockheed A-12, 60–6929, Article 126, for a functional check flight (FCF) after a period of deep maintenance, but seconds after take-off from Groom Dry Lake, Nevada, the aircraft yaws uncontrollably, pilot ejecting at 100 feet (30 m) after six seconds of flight, escaping serious injury.
This list is a subset of the list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by location; it is also available: grouped by year as List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft; grouped by airline; in alphabetical order; For alternative, more exhaustive lists, see: Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives; Aviation Safety Network
B-24E-25-CF (as built), 41-29075, c/n 67, flown by Howard R. Cosgrove, crashes and burns, killing all seven on board, while B-24E-25-FO (as built), 42-7420, c/n 444, [26] piloted by Carlos N. Clayton, [213] [182] makes a crash landing in a swamp, none of the eight crew suffering serious injury despite the aircraft being virtually demolished.
The helicopter was on a mission in a region that had been badly damaged during the most recent earthquake. All four crew members were taken to hospital, three of them with serious injuries. [36] 29 March A US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed at Forward Operating Base Atgar in the Zabul province of Afghanistan. [37] 31 March
RAF Bristol Brigand TF.1 RH744 failed to develop sufficient power on takeoff from RAE Farnborough, overran into soft ground and flipped over. There were no injuries, but it was the first Brigand to be written off. [290] William J. Smokovitz, flying a B-29A (tail number 45-21726) out of Grand Island AAF, in Nebraska, crashed in Buffalo Valley ...