List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1. This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances. Aircraft terminology. Air- sea rescue teams began a search of the Gulf in an area some 3. SE of Cameron, Louisiana, on the Gulf coast. Observer who bailed out is never found.
Shiver, 2. 9, of Albany, Ga., said 'we never knew what hit us' as the two six- jet bombers crashed together Wednesday night about 3. Cameron, La. An armada of planes and ships searched Thursday for the four airmen missing after the crash. Three of them were aboard the B4. Gulf, while the fourth, 1st Lt. Matthew Gemery, of Lakewood, Ohio, an observer, could have returned on his limping plane had he waited another minute before ejecting himself. Carroll, 3. 3 , of Port Arthur, Tex., as the commander of the plane that returned, and Shiver as the pilot. The other three missing airmen were Maj. Pierson, of Danville, Ind., aircraft commander; Capt. Crump, of Albermarle, N. C. Egelston of Levelland, Tex., observer- bombardier. The plane, from Mc. Connell Air Force Base, Wichita, Kan., disintegrated into hundreds of pieces after the explosion in this farm area of North Central Oklahoma near the Kansas border. Lawrence Tacker of Mc. Connell AFB identified the dead as: Capt. Andrew of Yellow Springs, Ohio, commander of the plane; 1st Lt. Cook, co- pilot, Sunland, Calif.; Capt. Berry, observer, Dayton, Ohio. The wives and families of the men are living temporarily in Wichita. Mc. Masters, who lives here, said he heard the plane coming from the north and in distress. Mc. Masters said it suddenly barrel- rolled and crashed. A crater 1. 0 to 1. Bits of the crewmen's bodies and the plane were scattered for hundreds of yards. Eglin Afb Adds Exercise PathsUPDATED Barbara Olson Faked Her Own Death on 9/11: Exposing Her & Her "Husband", Ted--then Solicitor General of the United States working for then. The plane landed on the Horne farm and the explosion was so great it rocked Bramen a mile away. Thompson, of the 1. Ferrying Squadron at Long Beach Air Force Base . He said he had landed not far from where his F5. Mustang, crippled by a faulty propeller, crashed in the snow. A George helicopter sighted the wreckage on the east side of snow- covered Shadow Mountain, 1. Victorville, and a search party reached the plane later Friday. Eglin Afb Adds Exercise Path At RocketshipThe Perrin trainer was on a routine flight. It had stopped at Williams to refuel. Donald Mc. Laren, 3. Lt. Richard Delehanty, 2. Sherman, Texas. It has a peak elevation of 1,2. Far East Air Force headquarters said a Sabre jet fighter and a jet trainer from nearby Yokota Air Base were missing. Air Force today released the names of three Air Force pilots killed Thursday night when two jet planes collided over Tokyo Bay. The pilots were identified as 2nd Lt. Heeter of Emlenton, PA.; 2nd Lt. Edwards of Beaucoup, Ill., and Capt. Milan Mosny, son of John Mosny, Little Falls, NY. Heeter was piloting an F8. Sabre jet and Edwards and Mosny were in a T3. After the collision the planes plummeted into Tokyo Bay. How would you like to enter one the over 600 American concentration camps across the USA? The barbed wired, shackle embedded camps have been built and are awaiting to. Date: Air Force: A'cft : Unit / Serial : based: crashed: crew: photo: seat: 14th October 1975: USAF: F-15A Eagle : 73 Two of the bodies have been recovered and search is continuing for the third. The Air Force did not say which bodies have been recovered. Buss, from Selfridge AFB, Mount Clemens, Michigan, reached an altitude of ~4. It crashed about 4. W of Alabama Street and S of 3rd Street, near the Santa Ana River Wash. The plane was headed for Alabama Street, which was carrying heavy north- south traffic. Buss said he first struck a small embankment causing the fuel tank to explode before the plane began grinding to a halt 2. One wing was ripped from the craft on impact. The pilot's clothing caught fire when the fuel tank exploded. After crawling from the blazing craft he tore off his outer garments and rolled in the sand, saving his own life. Smith, chief of Office for Information Services at the San Bernardino installation, said that the pilot, rushed immediately to the base hospital, was from the 1. Fighter- Interceptor Squadron at Selfridge AFB. He is single and believed a resident of that base. Smith stated that Buss was on his way to the Fresno Air Terminal and had stopped for fuel at Norton earlier in the day. Navy Beechcraft with three aboard goes missing while on a flight from Monterey, California, to Norton AFB, California. Marshall Hand, of La Mesa Village, Monterey, pilot; Lt. Lacewell, Jr., of Carmel, California, copilot; and a sailor passenger, Haskel Lewis Reichbach, fireman of the USS Badoeng Strait, berthed in San Diego. Still missing by mid- week, despite the search efforts of the Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Civil Air Patrol and Army National Guard, . According to CAA officials at Ontario International Airport who were the last to hear from the missing craft, the plane is believed to be down somewhere in the snow- covered San Bernardino Mountains. Verdin, 3. 6, is killed this date when he bails out of an A4. D Skyhawk at 3. 0,0. Victorville, California, and his parachute fails to open. Douglas company officials said that he radioed that he was bailing out shortly before the fighter- bomber crashed and burned. The wreckage was sighted at dusk 2. NW of Victorville between Haystack Butte and Highway 3. Edwards AFB. Verdin's body was not in the wreckage. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Office said a parachute was reported in the NE section of the county shortly after the crash. Search parties were dispatched to the area, which is partially snow- covered. Temperatures were near freezing. Friday 1. 4 January, on the desert floor eleven miles S of Kremer Junction, about a mile E of Highway 3. It was found ~three miles NE of the aircraft wreckage by a ground party composed of personnel from Camp Erwin, Edwards AFB and George AFB. Jack Miller of the Victorville substation. Confirmation that it was Verdin's body was made by Edwards AFB officers who landed at the scene in a helicopter a few minutes after the discovery. Verdin's helmet and part of his canopy were found about a mile S of where his body fell. Williams said that the body was removed from the scene by Air Force personnel. He left the service in June 1. Douglas. 1. 5 January The U. S. Air Force grounds its Fairchild C- 1. Flying Boxcars for a fleetwide engine inspection after incidents and accidents led to four forced or crashed landings within a week. A total of 1. 45 paratroopers and Air Force crew were involved in the four accidents in which two men were killed. The pilot and co- pilot were killed in that crash. Just hours before the Tennessee crash, 3. Miles City, Mont. Johnson, of Sewart AFB then guided the plane to the Miles City Airport without incident. Thirty- three paratroopers jumped to safety over Fairbanks, Alaska, Thursday when one engine of their plane failed. Robert Bruckner, pilot; Lt. Kurse, co- pilot, and six crewmen rode the plane to safety at Ladd AFB. Another C1. 19 engine failed Saturday shortly after the twin- engined Flying Boxcar took off from Ellsworth AFB, S. D., but the pilot safely landed the plane, which was carrying 3. Sixty C- 1. 19s involved in the exercise arrived at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, from Sewart AFB, and 1. Officers said that engine inspections were being performed at stations along the way as well as at Anchorage. The Los Alamitos Naval Air Station identified the pilot as Lt.(j. Robert Everett Hagen, 5. Rose Avenue, Long Beach. Hagen, who flew one weekend a month in a reserve squadron, had just taken off on a routine training flight in the Vought- Corsair plane. He leaves his wife, Betty, and four daughters; Mary Lou, 1. Patricia Ann, 6, and twins Jennifer Joan and Jane Margaret, 8. Navy Lockheed C- 1. J Super Constellation, Bu. No 1. 31. 63. 9, c/n 4. At 0. 50. 0, while over Prince Edward Island, two engines fail. The flight attempts to return to Harmon and a Boeing B- 2. C- 1. 21, rendezvousing with it at 0. Cabot Strait, between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Twelve minutes later, the Constellation shut off its lights and other electrical equipment to facilitate the dumping of excess fuel. Within minutes the bomber lost radar contact with the transport and it vanished. The Constellation went into a stormy sea amidst clouds and fog. The B- 2. 9 circled the area and finally spotted five life rafts and life jackets amidst wreckage at 0. The six crew and seven passengers, twelve men and one woman, were lost. The plane's pilot was identified as Lt. Fullmer, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas. The woman aboard was identified as Seaman Jeanette W. Elmer, 2. 2, of Syracuse, New York. Edward Le. Faivre, 3. Baltimore, Md., on temporary duty at Oxnard AFB, and Lt. Stanley Green, 2. Inglewood, were in the plane. Neither was injured, the Air Force said. The landing was made in a field about three miles south of the base. Stanford Nall, 2. Meridian, Calif., was killed Wednesday when his F8. F Sabre jet crashed into the Mediterranean eight miles northwest of Wheelus Field, the U. S. Air Force said Friday. Ainsworth rescued all seven survivors of a twin- engined Navy amphibian forced down Wednesday night in the Central Pacific. The transport radioed that it had picked up the men at 6: 5. Only a few hours before the rescue, the seven airmen had transferred from their life raft to a 3. Air Force plane. The lifeboat was about 6. Kwajalein, destination of the plane which developed engine trouble while flying from Johnston Island. The survivors reported by a walkie- talkie dropped to them that there were no casualties but some fever had developed. Flesh was commander of the search plane which sighted the survivors. In Washington, the Navy identified the seven as Lt. James Gotfray Measel, pilot, Norfolk, Va.; Ens. Harrison Bernard Nordstrom, Robert Nason Gardon, navigator, Watertown, Mass.; aviation electronics technician 2- c Robert D. Frame, Memphis, Tenn.; aviation machinists mate 2- c Edward James Nowark, Buffalo, N. Y.; aviation machinists mate 1- c William Clement Pavey, Warwick, R. I.; and aviation electronics technician 2- c Jerome Joseph Warras, Detroit, Mich. He was identified as Lt. Douglas Mosser, 3.
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