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[1] [4] With landing gear down and full flaps, the plane dropped quickly but too far left of the runway. [5] [6] See turned on his afterburner to increase power while pulling up and turning hard right. [7] Seconds later, at 8:58 a.m. CST, [4] the plane struck the roof of McDonnell Building 101 on the northeast side of the airport. It lost its ...
Kennedy Space Center, US: 1: Pad worker William B. Estes, 46, was killed while hooking up an 8-inch (20 cm) high-pressure water line, which should not have been pressurized at the time, to the mobile Service structure on Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. The cap blew off with 180 psi pressure, striking him in the chest and killing him.
LTV A-7D-12-CV Corsair II, 72-0172, of the 76th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing, England AFB, Louisiana, crashes on a test range on the eastern area of the Eglin AFB, Florida, reservation at ~2240 hrs. during a night training mission. The aircraft, part of a three-ship flight, had departed England AFB at ~2015 hrs. for a ...
On 6 December 1946, in a ceremony at the White House, President Truman had bestowed seven combat decorations on Sergeant Chilson for killing 56 German soldiers and helping to capture 243 others during five months of combat during World War II (1941–1945). Sgt.
The bird made a hole in the plane's radiator, forcing a gear-up landing near Brussels. [ 1 ] A Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning , 42-13400, c/n 222-7834, [ 2 ] crash-landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians , 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska , on a training mission; the pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith, was uninjured.
A total of 17 soldiers were killed in the crash. [232] 11 April USAF RF-4C Phantom II (67-0431) crashed into a warehouse complex just north of Bergstrom AFB, in Austin, Texas. The jet was returning from a low-level training mission when the crash occurred about 12:15 p.m. Both crew members ejected and parachuted safely to the ground.
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The first German A-4 flight-test model, ("Launch Aggregate 1"), completed 25 February 1942, [216] but which slips out of its "corset" after being fully tanked at Test Stand VII at Peenemünde due to contraction of the fuselage from the cold propellants, falling 2 meters, smashing three fins, and coming to rest on the rim of the engine nozzle ...