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    The range safety officer orders the destruction of the missile and the warhead. The missile was between 30,000 and 35,000 feet (between 9.1 and 10.7 km) in altitude when it was destroyed. Some of the missile parts fall on Johnston Island, and a large amount of missile debris falls into the ocean in the vicinity of the island.

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    USS Abraham Lincoln, the destroyer USS Merrill (DD-976) and at least two other ships, along with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, were assisting in the search. A Navy helicopter crew flying in the area and sailors from the Merrill reported a ball of fire and loud explosion about 0230 PST, said Senior Chief Petty Officer Bob Howard, a Navy ...

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    Four U.S. Army personnel are killed in a nighttime crash of a helicopter on main post at Fort Benning, Georgia. [50] A Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw crashed and burned in a heavily wooded area half a mile from a housing development while on a routine training flight at Fort Benning. Killed were: Capt. Earl J. Scott, pilot; Capt. Robert F. Carter ...

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    A Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron United States Air Force (USAF), from the Iceland Defense Force at Naval Air Station Keflavik, crashes in the Mosfellsheiði heath shortly after taking of from the crash site of a Cessna F172M Skyhawk that had crashed four hours earlier ...

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    Crewmen fighting a fire after the crash of a Sea Stallion helicopter on USS Guam in 1981. 19 July Aboard USS Guam, while operating 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Morehead City, North Carolina, United States, a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashed into another CH-53 and a Bell UH-1N Twin Huey upon landing. Four crewmen died and 10 were ...

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    The bodies were so dismembered that state police could initially only identify five of the victims, although the sixth was later found a half mile away, stated a United Press report. [87] An Associated Press report identifies the crash site as at Calhoun , Louisiana, and states that the explosion on impact spread wreckage "over a square mile."

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  9. USS Missouri (BB-63) - Wikipedia

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    A helicopter lands on a Missouri gun turret during the 1948 Midshipmen's Practice Cruise Missouri departed Piraeus on 26 April, touching at Algiers and Tangiers before arriving at Norfolk on 9 May. She departed for Culebra Island on 12 May to join Admiral Mitscher's 8th Fleet in the Navy's first large-scale postwar Atlantic training maneuvers.