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Nine American pilots escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, a tiny island 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Tokyo, in September 1944. Eight of the airmen, Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James "Jimmy" Dye, Glenn Frazier Jr., Marvell "Marve" Mershon, Floyd Hall, Warren Earl Vaughn, and Warren Hindenlang were ...
Marten Hartwell [1] (1925 – April 2, 2013) [2]: 18 [3] [4] was a German-Canadian bush pilot in the Canadian Arctic. [3] On November 8, 1972, the plane that Hartwell was flying on a medical evacuation crashed. [3] One passenger was killed on impact, another died shortly after, and the pilot had two broken ankles and could not walk. [3]
Jul. 12—A famed Alaska bush pilot's plane struck a tree while departing a remote ridgeline airstrip last month near Shaktoolik and then crashed onto the tundra, killing both people onboard, a ...
Continental Express Flight 2574 (Jetlink 2574) was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways [2] from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas to Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) (now called George Bush Intercontinental Airport) in Houston, Texas.
On February 23, 2019, the Boeing 767-375ER(BCF) used for this flight crashed into Trinity Bay during approach into Houston, killing the two crew members and a single passenger on board. The accident occurred near Anahuac, Texas, east of Houston, shortly before 12:45 CST (18:45 UTC). [1] [2] [3] This was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 767 ...
Bush had completed five years, four months, and five days toward his six-year service obligation. On October 1, 1973, Bush was honorably discharged from the Texas Air National Guard and transferred to the Air Force Reserve's inactive reserves in Denver, Colorado. On November 21, 1974, he was discharged from the Air Force Reserve, ending his ...
A group of ZIPRA guerrillas, armed with a Strela-2 launcher, waited in the bush beneath Flight 825's flightpath, and fired on the Hunyani about five minutes after it took off, while the aircraft was still in the climb phase of its flight. [28] The heat-seeking missile hit the plane's starboard wing and exploded, causing the inner engine to also ...
The FAA said the two planes collided and crashed to the ground around 1:20 p.m. Officials said the B-17 had a crew of five people, while the Kingcobra was flown by a single pilot. No paying ...