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Memorial stone of Cliff Burton, near the site of the bus crash in Dörarp. Dörarp is a small locality (according to the definition of Statistics Sweden) in Ljungby Municipality, Sweden. In 2005, Dörarp had 145 inhabitants. Dörarp is also the site of heavy metal band Metallica's tour bus accident during the Damage, Inc. Tour on September 27 ...
The 14 survivors remaining at the crash site were rescued in a mission that ended on 23 December. The story was to spawn a critically acclaimed book in 1974, along with several film adaptations. 16 October A USAF Convair F-106B-50-CO Delta Dart, 57-2528, [136] of the 4756th Air Defense Wing, Tyndall AFB, Florida, was lost in
Sikorsky CH-53C, 68-10933, c/n 65–231, Knife 13, [16] of the 21st Special Operations Squadron, departs from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base with a crew of five and 18 USAF Security Police on board to assist in the recovery operation of the SS Mayaguez. The helicopter disappears from the airfield's departure radar 40 miles W of the ...
The pilot and aircraft were assigned to a squadron at Williams Air Force Base near Phoenix, Arizona. The squadron is part of the 405th Tactical Training Wing at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. [232] 8 March Two Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, collide on a night training mission. They were flying at 92 mph ...
1950 First of only two prototypes of the Fairchild XNQ-1 Navy trainer contender, BuNo 75725, written off in a crash. [1]5 January A Boeing B-50A Superfortress, 46-021, [2] c/n 15741 [3] of the 3200th Proof Test Group out of Eglin AFB, crash lands in the Choctawhatchee Bay, northwest Florida, killing two of the 11 crew.
A military aircraft crashed near Albuquerque’s main airport and a US Air Force base Tuesday afternoon, and the pilot – having ejected before the wreck – was sent to a hospital with serious ...
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 ...
A U.S. Air Force KB-50 aerial tanker with nine crew members onboard disappeared approximately 240 miles (390 km) east of Norfolk, Virginia, on a flight from Langley Air Force Base to the Azores. Despite an exhaustive search of 325,000 square miles (840,000 km 2 ) of the Atlantic, nothing was found of the aircraft or its crew.