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Other notable La-9 variants were: La-9UTI – two-seat trainer version. Built at GAZ-99 in Ulan-Ude. Two versions exist: with 12.7 mm UBS machine gun and with one 23 mm NS-23 cannon (all armament is mounted in the cowling above the engine, firing through the propeller). La-132 (La-132) – prototype with upgraded Shvetsov M-93 engine. Projected ...
Delta Flight 954, operating the Convair, experienced miscommunication with air traffic control and were crossing a runway in poor visibility when North Central Airlines Flight 575, operating the DC-9, were in their takeoff roll on the same runway. The DC-9 attempted to fly over the Convair but struck it and then crash landed back on the runway.
A Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star, 49-917, of the 5th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 52d Fighter-Interceptor Group, crashes on take off from McGuire Air Force Base into a scrub pine forest at adjacent Fort Dix, New Jersey, killing the two crew and spraying burning fuel over a group of 54 U.S. Army soldiers assigned to B battery of the Ninth ...
A United States Marine Corps F/A-18 fighter-attack jet crashes, killing a student pilot and injuring a flight instructor. The aircraft had taken off from the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma but was from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, stationed in San Diego. Capt. Douglas F. Aguilera, 33, of Paso Robles, Calif., was killed. Maj.
Six people in an aerial tramway car plummeted 700 feet (210 m) to their deaths when an Armée de l'Air Republic F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighter struck and severed the downward-travelling tramway cable. The car, containing a German family of four and an Italian father and son, was returning from the Alpine peak of Aiguille du Midi to Chamonix ...
A military fighter jet on its way to an Air Force base in California crashed Tuesday near the international airport in New Mexico's largest city, sending up a large plume of smoke and injuring the ...
Police are still investigating the crash, but Lipp reportedly wasn't wearing a seatbelt when the 2015 Chevy Malibu she was riding in collided with a 2017 Jeep Cherokee, according to Valley News ...
The cause of the crash remains unknown. 9 September Douglas B-66 Destroyer, from Hurlburt Field crashed near Alvin, Texas. Three crew members aboard the plane bailed out after their plane developed trouble at 37,000 feet (11,000 m). Capt. Arthur J. Manzo, radar observer-navigator, was critically injured and died of his injuries 11 September 1957.