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List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1970–1974)

October 23, 2023

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. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office, the Air Safety Network, or the . Combat losses are not included, except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.

Aircraft terminology Edit

Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.

1970 Edit

10 January
Developmental prototype Indian Air Force HAL HF-24 Marut Mk.IR, HF 032, equipped with reheat, crashes just after takeoff, killing India's finest test pilot, Suranjan Das. Failure of one engine and partial failure of the second was rumored, but official inquiry attributes loss to a malfunctioning canopy locking system. Reheat trials do not resume until 1972, using second prototype BD 884.[1] Reheat upgrades are subsequently abandoned.
 
F-106A, 58-0787, on the ground after the pilot ejected.
2 February
Main article: Cornfield Bomber
A Convair F-106A-100-CO Delta Dart, 58-0787, of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, out of Malmstrom AFB, (the Cornfield Bomber), piloted by Capt. Gary Faust, goes into a post-stall gyration during a high-speed rudder roll, and enters a flat spin during air combat maneuvering (ACM) over Montana. Faust follows procedures and ejects from the aircraft at ~8,000 feet. The resulting change of balance causes the aircraft to go nose-down, stabilize, and it lands wheels up in a snow-covered wheatfield near Big Sandy, Montana, suffering almost no damage. The aircraft is then sent back to base by rail, repaired at McClellan AFB, California, and returned to service.[2] Preserved initially at Griffiss AFB, New York, it is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.[3]
26 March
First SEPECAT Jaguar prototype, E-01, crashes during landing attempt at Centre D'essais en Vol, Istres-Le Tubé Air Base, France, following in-flight emergency. Test pilot CDT A. M. L. Brossier shuts down starboard engine after engine bay warning due to a catastrophic fire;[4] on return to base and finding the speed excessive, pilot shuts down the remaining engine and thus loses the hydraulics, having not selected the electrically driven hydraulic pump on. Without flying controls he is obliged to eject, receiving minor injuries.[5]
3 April
A U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, 55-089, of the 28th Bomb Wing catches fire and crashes during landing at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, skidding into a brick storage building containing 25,000 gallons of jet fuel. Heroic efforts by crash crew save all nine on board, although one suffered broken limbs, and three firefighters were injured. One of the eight jet engines ran for forty minutes following crash.[6]
16 April
US Navy McDonnell Douglas TA-4F Skyhawk, BuNo 154308, c/n 13696,[7] of VA-43,[8] from NAS Oceana, Virginia, and U.S. Air Force North American T-39A-1-NA Sabreliner, 61-0640, c/n 265-43, en route from Shaw AFB, South Carolina to Langley AFB, Virginia, collided in mid-air, the T-39 coming down over residential area of Weldon, North Carolina, but no one on the ground was injured and wreckage missed homes. Skyhawk crew, Lts. George D. Green, 27, and Walter G. Young, 27, both of Virginia Beach, Virginia, were killed as it came down in a swamp area ~20 miles away, near Enfield, North Carolina. Pilot Col. Francis G. Halturewicz, of the Sabreliner, was credited with minimizing ground damage as he jettisoned most of its fuel before impact. Killed were Col. Ivey J. Lewis, Stockton, California, Halturewicz, Maj. Ronald L. Edwards, and T. Sgt. Joseph R. Brown, all of MacDill AFB, Florida.[9]
18 April
USMC Major General Edwin B. Wheeler, members of his staff, and Colonel Edward A. Wilcox (1st Marines), on an inspection of a search and destroy operation, are involved in a helicopter crash on approach to a jungle landing zone ~15 miles southwest of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Wheeler suffers a broken leg.[10]
28 April
A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II being ferried from Robins AFB, Georgia to Torrejon Air Base, Spain, is disabled by a severe thunderstorm, forcing the crew to eject at 36,000 feet 150 miles E of Charleston, South Carolina, suffering minor injuries from hail while descending. Pilot Capt. Daniel Heitz, 25, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and navigator Lt. MacArthur Weston, 28, of Jacksonville, North Carolina are spotted by rescue aircraft, and are recovered after two hours in the water by the oil tanker Texaco Illinois, diverted from 8 miles away.[11]
4 May
A Convair T-29, "Visco 57", departs Hamilton Air Force Base, California, at ~0800 hrs with four crew members and 10 passengers. en route to Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington, on a hazy but otherwise clear morning. Just minutes after takeoff, it clips a ridge SE of Petaluma, crashes and burns, killing 13 of those on board.[12][13]
6 May
USAF RF-4C-21-MC Phantom II, 64-1018,[14] 'AR' tailcode, of 1st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, based at RAF Alconbury in England, and on Defensive Combat Manouvres over the English Peak District crashes in woods at Unthank, near Dronfield in Derbyshire, England. Crew ejects over Curbar Edge in Derbyshire. The pilot, Major Don Tokar, 37, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, suffers a compound leg fracture after landing in rocks. The navigator, Major Peter Dunn, 34, of Salem, Illinois, escapes with minor cuts and lacerations sustained on landing.[15]
10 May
Lockheed SR-71A, 61-7969, Article 2020, crashed near Korat RTAFB, Thailand, after a refuelling resulted in a subsonic high-speed stall. Pilot Lawson and RSO Martinez eject safely.[16]
11 May
An F5 tornado strikes Lubbock, Texas destroying about one quarter of the city. Nineteen of 23 U.S. Air Force trainers (probably Cessna T-41 Mescaleros) at Lubbock International Airport are destroyed, amongst 100 aircraft damaged.[17]
12 May
Indian Air Force prototype HAL HF-24 Marut HF 001, BR 461, is lost due to unknown circumstances in the sea off of Goa while on routine ferry flight. Squadron Leader K. L. Narayan is lost with aircraft.[1]
22 May
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star of the 1st Composite Wing, Andrews AFB, Maryland, crashes just short of the north runway on approach to that base, killing pilot Maj. John H. McDowell Jr., 37, Clinton, Maryland, and Lt. Edwin D. Billmeyer, 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, and injuring three motorists on the ground.[18]
24 May
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy makes an emergency landing at Dobbins AFB, Georgia, suffering an electrical malfunction that knocks out landing lights, causes minor damage to the nosegear and flattens four of 28 tires.[19]
27 May
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, 67-0172, c/n 500-0011, catches fire while taxiing at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, due to an electrical fire in the cargo compartment. Five crew escape, but seven firefighters suffer minor injuries fighting blaze.[19] Aircraft destroyed.
June
RAF Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1, XP441, of No. 114 Squadron RAF, written off during training accident at RAF Benson, when aircraft bounces heavily during three-engine approach, attempts a go-around, but pilot inexpertly retracts the flaps, stalls, comes down in Mr. Passey's junk yard in the village of Benson. Crew, remarkably, is uninjured.[20]
6 June
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, 68-0212, c/n 500-0015, fifteenth off the production line, but first to be delivered to any operational Military Airlift Command wing, loses one tire and blows another on landing at Charleston AFB, South Carolina for the 437th MAW.[21]
11 June
A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6A Intruder No. 156998, flown by pilot LT James D. Maynard, age 25, and bombardier LTJG William H. Van Stone, Jr., of VA-145 stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, crashed while on a routine practice bombing run over the Boardman Bombing Range near Boardman, Oregon. Although both crewmen ejected, the 23-year old Van Stone did not survive.[22]
17 June
Lockheed SR-71A, 61-7970, Item 2021, collides with KC-135Q tanker 20 miles E of El Paso, Texas. Pilot Buddy Brown and RSO Mort Jarvis eject safely. Tanker limps back to Beale Air Force Base, California.[23]
 
Lt. (j.g.) William Belden, ejects from an A-4E Skyhawk on the deck of the USS Shangri-La circa 29 July 1970. Photo by Photographers Mate Keith Guthrie of Palatka, Florida. Both pilot and Skyhawk recovered. Navy photo NH-90350[24]
27 June
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Cessna L-19 Bird Dog of No.4 Army Aviation Squadron, Dhamial Air Base, piloted by Major Tahir Mahmood Jilani, with Observer Captain Noor Mohammed, went missing, while on search and recovery mission to locate a drowned military officer Captain Bahadur's body, over the mighty river Indus near Kalabagh-Khushal Garh area. No debris or bodies were located, in the very extensive ground and aerial search that followed, however.
18 July
Main article: 1970 Atlantic Ocean Antonov An-22 crash
Soviet Air Force Antonov An-22, c/n 00340207, CCCP-09303, of the 81st Military Transport Aviation Regiment, crashes in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 22 on board; cause never fully determined, but decompression was theorized. The aircraft was transporting humanitarian aid to Peru following an earthquake. All pressurized An-22s are grounded following the crash.
24 July
U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4C-20-MC Phantom II, 63-7609, crashes[25] SE of McNeal, Arizona.[26]
Circa 29 July
Lt. (j.g.) William Belden, 23, of Racine, Wisconsin, ejects from a McDonnell Douglas A-4E Skyhawk on the deck of the USS Shangri-La in the western Pacific. Pilot recovered shaken but unhurt by helicopter; Skyhawk later recovered from carrier catwalk.[24]
30 July
USMC Lockheed KC-130F Hercules, BuNo 150685, c/n 3728, of VMGR-152, crashed at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Lake Forest, California during misjudged maximum effort landing – wings broke, fuselage ended up overturned, burned.
3 August
A Lockheed P-3A-55-LO Orion, BuNo 152159, c/n 185-5129,[7] 'ZE-06', of VP-17, NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, explodes in flight after takeoff from Nellis AFB, Nevada, crashing near Searchlight, Nevada, killing all ten aboard. The cause of the accident was never determined.[27]
5 August
A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the 36th TFW, Bitburg, Germany, TDY to Zaragoza Air Base, Spain, crashes on a gunnery range 25 miles from Zaragoza, killing pilot Capt. Charles A. Baldwin, 28, of Charleston, West Virginia, and navigator Capt. Stephen N. Smith, 27, of Pinebrook, New Jersey.[28]
25 August
A Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter, 27+30, c/n 5732, of MFG 1, Marineflieger, downed by engine failure due to FOD, shortly after take-off from Jagel Air Base at Glücksburg in northern West Germany, both crew ejecting safely. Although the cause of the crash was not immediately known, a spokesman said it might have been struck by a bird in flight. This was the 122nd West German Starfighter crash since the type entered service in 1961.[29]
1 September
A Vought F-8J Crusader, BuNo 150329,[30] of VF-24 suffers ramp strike on the USS Hancock and explodes during night carrier qualifications, killing Lt. Darrell N. Eggert.[31]
8 September
USAF Captain William Schaffner, on exchange with the Royal Air Force, crashes his BAC Lightning, Foxtrot 94, into the North Sea off Flamborough Head while on an intercept exercise. Schaffner flies too low and impacts the water; he attempts to bail out, but his ejector seat fails. The aircraft is recovered three months later, but Captain Schaffner's body is never found. There is unfounded speculation that Schaffner was the victim of an alien abduction.[32]
8 September
US Marine Corps Capt. Patrick G. Carroll, 27, of El Toro, California, ejects safely Tuesday moments before his Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, BuNo 150089, crashes in a remote area 20 miles N of Big Bear, California in Lucerne Valley at 1528 hrs. The impact touches off a 30-acre brushfire in Lovelace Canyon, south and west of the Lucerne Valley, which was still burning the following day. Eight retardant-dropping fire bombers are diverted from another blaze near Devore, California, in the Cajon Pass to help contain the burn. A total of 12 California Division of Forestry and other trucks are also dispatched to the site to fight the fire. The pilot, who was flying N over Big Bear Lake on a navigation training flight, suffered an undetermined malfunction, said a public information spokesman at MCAS El Toro, California. He was seen as he ejected by a gas company serviceman, James Kennedy, who picked him up and drove him to near-by Sky-High Ranch. Carroll, a Vietnam veteran, is picked up by a rescue helicopter from George Air Force Base, California, and was not injured. Firefighters were hindered by rough, rocky terrain and a truck that overturned on an access road, blocking the path for over an hour. Fire crew were lifted to the site by helicopter or had to walk in 1 1/2 miles from Highway 18 near the Lucerne Valley. CDF officials expected the blaze to be contained by 1800 hrs., 9 September, unless winds developed.[33][34]
29 October
The crash of a U.S. Army Beechcraft U-8F Seminole, 62-3865, c/n LF.63,[35] at Tri-State Airport, Kenova, West Virginia, kills General Edwin H. Burba, two warrant officers, and seriously injures Burba's aide. Burba was en route to Morehead, Kentucky, and Morehead State University, to participate in ceremonies honoring that institution's Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Program and to present the Outstanding Service Civilian Award, the Army's highest civilian award, to his friend and the school's president, Dr. Adron Doran. Traffic controllers at the southwestern West Virginia airport, located near the Ohio and Kentucky borders, said that one of the co-pilots radioed that they had an engine out and were attempting to land on instruments. Moments later the twin-engined aircraft crashed into trees in heavy rain and fog, coming down three-quarters of a mile west of the airport's main runway. Burba, 58, died in the accident as did CW2 Paul R. Burt and CW3 Maynard R. Reisinger. Aide Capt. James B. Bickerton was listed in critical condition in hospital where he was admitted to surgery. "General Burba became deputy commander of the First Army in 1968. He served in Africa and Europe during World War II and was wounded in Tunisia in 1943. He served twice in Korea. His medals include the Silver Star, Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart."[36] Kelly Pool at Fort George Meade, Maryland, was renamed Burba Lake in his honor during a dedication ceremony on Memorial Day, 31 May 1971.[37] Crash cause was determined to be due to a fatal design flaw in the fuel cross-feed system.[38]
11 November
A U.S. Air Force McDonnell F-4C-24-MC Phantom II, 64-0863, c/n 1238,[39] 'WS' tailcode, of the 91st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 81st Tactical Fighter Wing,[40] crashes in the North Sea after an engine fire. Both crew eject. Capt. Johnny Jones, 28, of Snow Hill, North Carolina, and Capt. David Allen, 27, of Darien, Connecticut are rescued by helicopter, officials at Ruislip, England said.[41]
15 November
US Navy Grumman S-2 Tracker crashes at Fort Dix, New Jersey killing four. Wreckage found on 16 November in wooded area off Range Road. Killed were pilot Navy Lt. J.G. James K. Larson, 24, of Milltown, New Jersey, co-pilot 1st Lt. (USMC) Carleton C. Perine, 25, of Orange, New Jersey, and passengers Navy Airman Apprentice Robert Suttle, 20, of Bricktown, New Jersey, and Navy Airman Apprentice Gary B. Warner, 19, of Central Bridge, New York.[42]
16 November
A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4J-42-MC Phantom II, BuNo 155903,[40][43] crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 30 miles E of the Virginia Capes shortly after launch from the carrier USS Forrestal. Two crew, out of NAS Oceana, Virginia, are lost, the Navy reported 17 November. Pilot was Lt.j.g. John Dale O'Connor, and RSO was Lt.j.g. Thomas F. Hanagan, both of Virginia Beach, Virginia. They were attached to VF-101, a fighter squadron based at NAS Oceana at Virginia Beach.[44]
24 November
Lockheed U-2R, 68-10335, Article 057, seventh airframe of the first R-model order, first flown 30 July 1968, registered N815X, delivered to the CIA 29 August 1968. Crashes at Taoyuan Air Base, Taiwan, on landing after a routine, high-altitude training flight, this date, ROCAF pilot Capt. Denny Huang KWF. At touchdown he skips slightly and begins drifting to starboard. Exacerbated by a 12-knot crosswind, the aircraft leaves the runway, whereupon the pilot applies power to go around. Before the engine spools up, the airframe strikes a six-foot high runway marker. Begins a slow climbing turn to port but nose-high angle causes stall, jet crashes and burns. The Accident Board recommends that the Dash One pilot's manual be amended to emphasize that a go-around should not be attempted after loss of directional control on landing. This was the first loss of an R-model.[45]
15 December
RAF English Electric Canberra B(I).8, XM267, 'E', of No 3(F) Squadron, crashed at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, while on detachment from Squadron base at RAF Laarbruch, Germany. On approach to Akrotiri runway pilot elected to carry out an over shoot. When both engines were throttled up the starboard engine responded and increased power; port engine failed to respond. The effect of this was the aircraft 'cartwheeled' and port wing hit the ground killing both crew and passenger. Pilot F/O R.Ellis, Navigator F/O R MacMillan, one passenger Senior Aircraftman Kim Petty-Fitzmaurice.
15 December
U.S. Navy Grumman C-2A Greyhound, BuNo 155120, of VRC-50, out of NAS Atsugi,[46] crashes on takeoff from USS Ranger, in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stalled after catapult launch with a probable load shift of the cargo, reaches extreme nose-up attitude, goes into a hammerhead stall, and crashes off the carrier's port bow, 9 killed, 7 missing.[7][47]
19 December
Soviet Air Force Antonov An-22, c/n 9340205, CCCP-09305, crashes at Panagarh Airport, India while attempting a belly landing, killing all 17 on board. Forty minutes after takeoff from Dhaka, one of the propeller blades separated, destroying engine control cables. The crew began descending and was attempting an emergency wheels-up landing when the aircraft crashed.[48]
30 December
Prototype Tomcat, Grumman F-14-01-GR Tomcat, 157980, suffers hydraulic fluid leak on second flight, crew attempts return to Grumman plant at Calverton, New York, but loses flight controls just before crossing airfield threshold, both crew eject as airframe plunges into woods short of runway.[49]

1971 Edit

7 January
Main article: 1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash
An unarmed U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress, 54-2666, callsign Hiram 16, of the 99th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Westover AFB, Massachusetts, crashes into Lake Michigan near Charlevoix, Michigan during a practice bomb run following wing failure, exploding on impact. Only a small amount of wreckage, two life vests, and some spilled fuel was found in Little Traverse Bay. Bomber went down six nautical miles from the Bay Shore Air Force Radar Site. Nine crew killed while flying (KWF).[50] The left wing spars had snapped in two due to fatigue, causing the wing to fail between the left two engine pods.
8 January
General Dynamics FB-111A, 68-0283, c/n B1-55,[51] of the 340th Bombardment Group (Medium), Carswell AFB, Texas, on its acceptance test flight from the General Dynamics Plant in Fort Worth, crashes three miles NE of Mandeville, Louisiana, killing both crew, Lt. Col. Bruce D. Stocks, 38, and Maj. Billy C. Gentry, 36.[52] Over 125 aircraft including Air Force planes from Carswell and Sheppard Air Force Bases, of the Civil Air Patrol (77 from the Fort Worth area and 55 from San Antonio) and the Coast Guard logged more than 275 flight hours in the search by 11 January.[53] The search was expanded into Louisiana and Mississippi on 13 January. "We suspect the plane may have traveled into the areas of Louisiana, southern Mississippi and East Texas," said Capt. Tom Lauterback, information officer at Carswell AFB, on Wednesday 13 January.[54] Escape module with crew's remains not found until 2 February, three weeks after the loss. A parachute was found hanging from a nearby tree, but it did not deploy in time to save the airmen.[55] An FB-111A escape module displayed at the Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska, is said to be from this accident.[51]
21 January
An Armee de l'Air Nord 262A-34, 44/F-RBOA, c/n 44, (delivered January 1969[56]) on a flight from Paris to the isotope separation plant at Pierrelatte, France, crashes on a snow-covered peak in Southern France in a blizzard, killing all 21 on board including 13 of the nation's top experts on nuclear weapons and atomic production. They were on their way for a meeting of the scientists to coordinate projects of the Atomic Energy Commission and the armed forces. A helicopter pilot who flew over the scene said that only the tail was intact and that no one could have survived the crash. Icing was initially speculated as a possible cause.[57] "The crew had been cleared by Marseilles ACC at FL 80 to the Montelimar (MTL) VOR and FL50 afterwards. FL80 was the minimum safe altitude level between CMF (Clermont Ferrand) and MTL. Controllers at the time considered it possible that the pilot might have retained the FL50 as the final clearance and had disregarded the initial FL80 instruction."[58] Among the victims were Rear Adm. Robert Landrin, 55, deputy chief of staff of the armed forces, and Jacques Mabile, production director of the AEC and the man credited with developing France's uranium resources. Others included Gen. Edouard Billion, 54, head of nuclear affairs in the arms division of the Defense Ministry; Gen. Jean-Marc Pineau, 48, chief of planning for the chiefs of staff and three of his senior officers: Jean la Bussiere, AEC financial director; Hubert de la Boylaye, head of the commission's radiological safety division, and Georges Tirole, AEC deputy director for military applications. One source identified the crash site as Gerbier du Jonc peak[57] while another states that the twin-engine turboprop struck Suc de Pradou, a 1342 m high mountain and came to rest 200 m below the summit.[58][59]
 
Test pilot Stuart Present ejects safely from crashing LLTV (NASA), 29 January 1971.
29 January
A Lunar Landing Training Vehicle crashes at Ellington AFB, Texas. NASA test pilot Stuart Present ejects safely.
19 February
A Beechcraft L-23 crashes into Mt Sanford at the 14,800 elevation level, east of Glennallen, Alaska. The plane was enroute from Sharp Army Depot in Stockton, CA to Anchorage, Alaska, and had a two week delay in Whitehorse, British Columbia due to mechanical problems. The plane was carrying Lt Col. William Caldwell, Maj. Steven W. Henault, and Sgt. Herbert Alex. There were no survivors.
26 February
A Luftwaffe Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, 22+64, c/n 7145, of Detachment Deci, crashes during a gunnery training flight on the Fransca range over the Italian island of Sardinia after its pilot parachutes to safety, the defense ministry said, making it the 128th crash of the type since entering German service in 1961.[60] Engine failure due to FOD.
15 April
Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, Russian engineer and former cosmonaut (1 April 1910 – 15 April 1986), is injured in the crash of a Tupolev Tu-16 into the Aral Sea while the bomber was flying parabolas for zero-G tests of the engine of the Molniya Block L upper stage, to study why the stage was continually failing to restart in earth orbit.[61]
23 April
A U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-111E, 67-0117, c/n A1-162/E-3, out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashes in a rocky area of the Mojave Desert 12 miles S of Death Valley National Monument during test flight,[62] both crew, pilot Maj. James W. Hurt, 34, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and WSO Maj. Robert J. Furman, 31, of New York City, killed when parachute on escape module fails to open until just before ground impact. Both bodies were inside the escape module when it is found on Saturday, 24 April. Aircraft experienced trouble at 6,000 feet. This was the 18th crash of the type since entering service and the second fatal accident this year when the module chute failed to properly deploy.[63] All F-111s are grounded on Thursday 30 April[64] after it is determined that the recovery chute compartment door failed to separate making crew escape impossible. This was the sixth grounding order for the type since it entered operation.[65][66] Grounding order lifted 8 June 1971 during which time the panel that failed in this accident was replaced.[67]
6 June
USMC McDonnell Douglas F-4B-18-MC Phantom II, BuNo 151458, of VMFA-323, en route from NAS Fallon, Nevada to MCAS El Toro, California, collides in mid-air with Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a DC-9-31 (N9345) out of Los Angeles International Airport, at 1811 hrs. over the San Gabriel Mountains, N of Duarte, California. Collision at 15,150 feet altitude killed F-4 pilot 1st Lt. James R. Phillips, 28, of Denver, Colorado (inoperable canopy release), the RIO ejecting and landing near Azusa, California. All 44 passengers and five crew members were killed aboard the DC-9, which impacted into a remote canyon of Mt. Bliss approximately three miles N of the city of Duarte. The wreckage of the F-4B fighter landed in another canyon approximately .75 miles SE of the DC-9's crash site. Although visibility was good, with no clouds, both crews failed to see and avoid each other. The Airwest DC-9 jetliner was under radar control, but the F-4B fighter was flying with an inoperable transponder that made it invisible on air traffic control radar screens. The RIO, Lt. Christopher E. Schiess, 24, of Salem, Oregon, admitted to inquiry board that the F-4B had performed a 360-degree slow roll about a minute before the collision. One of the early leaders of campus antiwar activism, Prof. Arnold Saul Kaufman, at the University of Michigan in 1965, now Philosophy professor at UCLA, was killed aboard the DC-9.[68][69][70][71]
13 June
A USAF Boeing EC-135N, 61-0331, c/n 18238, of the 4950th Test Wing, Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, en route from Pago Pago, American Samoa, to Hickam AFB, Hawaii, after monitoring the French Encelade atmospheric nuclear test, conducted 12 June 1971, disappears over the Pacific Ocean ~70 miles S of Hawaii near Palmyra Island. Twelve military personnel and twelve civilians are lost. Only small bits of wreckage found.[72][73]
15 June
Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter, 56-0756, c/n 183-1044, assigned to Aerospace Research Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California, suffers second rocket explosion this date, blowing the whole rocket motor and part of rudder off in flight at 35.000 ft and Mach 1.15.[74] Pilot Capt. Howard C. Thompson lands safely but as the NF-104 project is due to end soon aircraft is written off and portions of it used to create the composite "760" sitting on a pole at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base.[75]
30 June
The crew of Soyuz 11, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov, are killed after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A valve on their spacecraft accidentally opens when the service module separates, letting their air leak out into space. The capsule reenters and lands normally, and their deaths are only discovered when it is opened by the recovery team. Technically the only fatalities in space (above 100 km).[76]
8 July
"Israel's military command said [on 9 July] that 10 Israeli soldiers are missing and presumed killed in the crash of a helicopter in the Mediterranean off the Sinai coast. The announcement said the helicopter went down Thursday afternoon. It was the heaviest reported loss of life involving Israeli troops since the Arab-Israeli cease-fire began last Aug.8. There was no explanation for the crash off the occupied Sinai tour [sic] of El Arish, but an Israeli spokesman ruled out any Arab involvement. Thursday was a perfect flying day in Israel, with clear skies and no clouds. Israeli planes and rescue ships searched the area but found neither wreckage nor survivors. The military command said a committee had been set up to investigate the crash."[77] The Sikorsky CH-53 Yas'ur crashed into the sea off the Sinai coast, killing 10 soldiers and officers as they returned to Israel following a mission.[78][79]
12 July
Piper PA-48 Enforcer, N202PE, c/n PE2-1001, crashes after structural failure due to flutter caused by a Piper-modified elevator trim tab, off of Vero Beach, Florida.[80] Four of the heavily modified, turbine-powered TF-51 derivatives were built for the counter-insurgency role with two tested at Eglin AFB, Florida in 1983–1984, but no orders were ever placed.
27 July
Indian Air Force production HAL HF-24 Marut Mk.1, flown by Wing Commander J. K. Mohlah, crashes just after takeoff at Bangalore, pilot KWF.[1]
30 July
At ~1400 hrs., a Japanese Air Self Defense Force North American F-86F Sabre, 92-7932, collides in mid-air at FL280 with All Nippon Airways Flight 58, a Boeing 727-281, JA8329, on a regional flight between Sapporo and Tokyo-Haneda. The student pilot was not watching out for other traffic in the training area, and when the instructor warned him to break away from approaching jetliner, it is too late, the Sabre's right wing striking the 727s left horizontal stabilizer. All seven crew and 155 passengers on the Boeing were killed, wreckage coming down near Shizukuishi. F-86F crew ejects.[81] All Japanese military aircraft were immediately grounded while investigation took place.[82]
18 August
US Army CH-47A 66-19023, c/n B.281, of the 4th Aviation Company, 15th Aviation Group, crashes near Pegnitz when the aft rotor blades fail due to fatigue and separate, killing all 37 on board. The helicopter was transporting soldiers of the Heavy Mortar Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, 56th Field Artillery Brigade from battalion headquarters in Ludwigsburg to Grafenwoehr for live fire training exercises. A memorial plaque was placed near the crash site in the forest outside Pegnitz, but this was stolen in 2009.[83][84]
20 August
A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer is hijacked this date before the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocks out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets. On regaining consciousness in mid-flight, Minhas struggles for flight control as well as relaying the news of his hijack to the PAF base. In the end of the ensuing struggle he succeeds to crash his aircraft into the ground near Thatta on seeing no way to prevent the hijack and the defection. He was posthumously awarded Pakistan's highest military award Nishan-e-Haider (Sign of the Lion) for his act of bravery.[85][86][87][88][89] Matiur Rahman was awarded Bangladesh's highest military award, Bir Sreshtho, for his attempt to defect to join the civil war in East Pakistan (modern-day Bangladesh).[87]
11 September
Lockheed C-121 Constellation of the West Virginia Air National Guard, carrying five state governors to a conference in Puerto Rico, experiences engine problems, force-lands at Homestead AFB, Florida. Governors of Connecticut, Minnesota, Montana, Texas and Utah, transfer to another aircraft to continue flight.[90]
13 September
A People's Liberation Army Air Force Trident 1E crashed in Mongolia under mysterious circumstances during an attempt by Lin Biao and his family to defect to the Soviet Union according to the official view of the PRC. Official PRC accounts claim that the Trident ran out of fuel.[91]
28 September
A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion, on patrol over the Sea of Japan, is fired on by a Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiser in international waters. The P-3 was checking a group of Soviet Navy ships cruising off the shore of Japan when crew members reported seeing tracer rounds fired well ahead of the Orion. Immediately following the incident, authorities recalled the P-3 to its base at MCAS Iwakuni, and all surveillance craft were pulled back five miles.[92][93]
29 September
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy of the 443d Military Airlift Wing, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, one of six used for training, had its number one (port outer) engine tear off the pylon while advancing take-off power before brake release, setting the wing on fire. The crew evacuated safely within 90 seconds and the fire was extinguished by emergency equipment. The engine had flown up and behind the Galaxy, landing some 250 yards to the rear. The Air Force subsequently grounded six other C-5s with similar flight hours and cycles. Further investigation found cracks in younger C-5s and the entire fleet was grounded.[94][95]
12 October
A RAF McDonnell Douglas/Hawker Siddeley F-4M Phantom FGR.2, XV479, 'J', of No. 54 Squadron,[96] on a training mission crashes into a farm house near Holstebro, Denmark, due to engine failure on take-off[97] killing a woman and her child. Police and rescuers who rushed to the scene could do nothing to save them from the burning house. The crew of two parachutes to safety after problems with engine reheat.[98]
19 October
Grumman E-2B Hawkeye BuNo 151721, c/n 41, 'NF 013', of VAW-115,[99] and LTV A-7B-4-CV Corsair II, BuNo 154539, c/n B-179,[7] both from the USS Midway, collide over the Sea of Japan while both were preparing to land aboard, with E-2 crashing near the stern of the carrier, all five crew lost. A-7 pilot ejected safely, picked up by helicopter from MCAS Iwakuni in good condition.[100]
29 October
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star crashes near Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, both crew ejecting before the airframe impacted in a sugar cane field; one seriously injured, one with minor injuries.[101]
November
Two ex-U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-34J Seabat, BuNos. 143934, c/n 58-698, and 143941, c/n 58-722, obtained by Uruguay's Aviación Naval (Naval Aviation) in October 1971 as A-061 and A-062, collide in midair during a public demonstration over a crowded beach, killing eight, over thirty injured, both airframes destroyed.[102]
7 November
A U.S. Air Force McDonnell F-4D-27-MC Phantom II, 65-0653, c/n 1657, 'HO' tailcode, of the 7th TFS, 49th TFW,[103] based at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, and a U.S. Air Force Convair F-106A-130-CO Delta Dart, 59-0125,[104] of the 84th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Hamilton AFB, California, collide in mid-air and crash in isolated areas near Nellis AFB, Nevada. All three crew eject and survive. F-4 crew, Maj. Henry J. Viccellio and Maj. James A. Robertson, okay. Phantom comes down 35 miles from Caliente, Nevada, Delta Dart attempts recovery to Nellis but pilot Maj. Clifford L. Lowrey ejects eight miles NE of base.[105]
12 November
Air Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules 69-6578, c/n 4353, of the 61st Tactical Airlift Squadron, 314th Tactical Airlift Wing, crashed due to fin stall on take-off from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.
15 November
A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6A Intruder, BuNo. 151563, of VA-42, on a maintenance test flight out of NAS Oceana, Virginia, suffers failure of the drogue chute gun in the pilot's ejection seat, pulling the two ejection seat cables and ejecting Lt. Dalton C. Wright. The bombardier-navigator, Lt. John W. Adair, with no pilot in the aircraft, is forced to eject. Jet comes down 15 miles from Oceana. The Navy investigation later determines that five or six flight accidents and one hangar accident may have been caused by the same problem. One source cites date of 15 October 1971.[106][107]
16 November
Republic F-84F-25-GK Thunderstreak, 51-9371,[108] of the 170th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 183d Tactical Fighter Group, Illinois Air National Guard,[109] loses a wing during exercises at the Hardwood Air-to-Ground Weapons Range (R-6904) near Finley, Wisconsin, under the control of Volk Field Air National Guard Base, Wisconsin,[110] caused by the failure of the "milkbone" joining bolt in the main wing, weakened by years of flying. Pilot killed.[111] "The Guard still had 56 F-84Fs in November 1971 when [this] serious accident occurred due to structural corrosion. The 183rd Tactical Fighter Group, Springfield, Ill., the only ANG unit still equipped with F-84Fs, was programmed for F-4C aircraft, and over 90 percent of the grounded F-84Fs showed signs of stress corrosion. Hence no repairs were made. In February 1972, however, the Air Force used two ANG F-84Fs in developing repair procedures that would be offered to the many allied nations using the elderly aircraft."[112] Some 25–30 of the 183d Thunderstreaks were ferried to Eglin AFB, Florida in February 1972, for use as targets on the test ranges although one airframe was later retrieved for the infant Air Force Armament Museum.
18 November
Lockheed U-2A, 56-6952, Article 392, second airframe of the USAF supplementary production, delivered in January 1958, and assigned to the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, Laughlin AFB, Texas. Converted to U-2C by November 1966. Assigned to training flights at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 1969. Destroyed this date at Davis-Monthan, in a fatal landing accident. Pilot was Capt. John Cunney, who lands heavily, wing low, attempts go-around but stalls and crashes onto the runway.[113]

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18 January
General Dynamics F-111E-CF, 68-018, c/n A1-127 / E-28,[51][114] tailcode 'JS',[115] out of RAF Upper Heyford, crashes on high ground in Scotland, both crew are killed.
19 February
Lockheed C-130E Hercules 62-1813, c/n 3775, of the 16th Tactical Airlift Training Squadron, collides in mid-air with a Cessna T-37 Tweet from Biggs AFB, Texas, 6 km NE of Little Rock, Arkansas; four persons on the Hercules are killed. The two Tweet pilots eject safely.
14 March
Two USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs collide in mid-air over the town of El Buste, Spain, about 30 miles from the joint US-Spanish base at Zaragoza. F-4D-28-MC, 65-0708, c/n 1753,[103] and F-4D-31-MC, 66-7651, c/n 2231,[116] both of the 23d Tactical Fighter Squadron, 36th Tactical Fighter Wing, are lost,[104] and all four crewmen are killed. Debris showers down onto the town, damaging communications and starting several roof fires, but there are no injuries to townspeople. The aircraft were returning to base in strong winds and broken clouds after a routine gunnery mission.[117] 7651 was the first block 31 airframe.[116]
23 March
A McDonnell F-101B Voodoo of the 119th Fighter Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, crashes into a house at 1121 26th Street N, Fargo, North Dakota, killing the pilot, 1st Lt Burton D. Humphrey, and injuring Mrs. Gerald Reed in the house. The weapon systems officer, 2nd Lt Sanford O. Borlaug, ejects from the aircraft and survives with injuries.[118]
31 March
Twenty minutes after take-off from McCoy AFB, Florida, a USAF Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, AF Ser. No. 56-0625, of the 306th Bomb Wing, suffers an in-flight fire in engine number seven which spreads to engine number eight and the starboard wing. During an attempted emergency landing at McCoy it crashes a quarter-mile north of Runway 18R/36L and destroys four homes in a civilian residential area, killing the entire crew of six on board and one civilian on the ground. Eight civilians on the ground are injured.[119][120]
2 April
US Army UH-1 Huey helicopter 66-15230 crashes near Rock Springs, Wyoming, having taken off that morning from Cheyenne, Wyoming. The aircraft had undergone maintenance at the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas and was being ferried to Boise, Idaho. The pilot, Army Captain Bruce R. Larson of Clearwater, Florida, was killed when it went down.[121]
8 April
Hawker Siddeley Andover C.1, XS609, bound for the United Kingdom carrying an 18-man paratroop exhibition team, crashes on take-off at Siena, Italy, digging in its starboard wingtip before skidding 300 yards across the airfield and catching fire. Of the 21 on board, four are killed and four injured, most escaping before the fuel tanks ignited.[122][123]
14 April
A Marine Corp Reserve pilot is killed in a night accident when he ejects from his McDonnell Douglas A-4C Skyhawk, BuNo 147824, c/n 12588,[124] after tire failure on landing at MCAS El Toro, California. Although he clears the airframe before it veers off the runway and into a fuel truck, "...authorities said the pilot bounced several times on the runway after ejecting."[125][126][127]
15 April
A U.S. Marine Corps Reserve pilot ejects safely from his McDonnell Douglas A-4C Skyhawk, BuNo 148480, c/n 12673,[124] as it catches fire and explodes over the surf at Newport Beach, California in front of hundreds of beachgoers during the weekend. The aircraft had just left MCAS El Toro when the fire warning light came on.[128]
10 May
Không quân Nhân dân Việt Nam (Vietnam People's Air Force) Shenyang J-6 of the Trung đoàn Không quân Tiêm kích 925 (925th Fighter Regiment) runs out of fuel after a CAP mission, deadsticks from an altitude of 1,400 meters, descends too rapidly, and overruns the runway at Yên Bái Air Base, North Vietnam. It overturns and explodes, killing the pilot instantly.[129]
4 June
The USAF Thunderbirds suffer their first fatal crash at an air show during Transpo 72 at Dulles International Airport. Major Joe Howard flying Thunderbird 3, McDonnell Douglas F-4E-32-MC Phantom II, 66-0321, experiences a loss of power during a vertical manoeuver, and breaks out of the formation just after it completes a wedge roll and was ascending at ~2,500 feet AGL. The aircraft staggers and then descends in a flat attitude with little forward speed. Although Major Howard ejects as the aircraft falls back to earth from ~ 1,500 feet slightly nose low, and descends under a good C-9 canopy, winds blow him into the ascending fireball. The parachute melts and the pilot plummets 200 feet, sustaining fatal injuries in the fall.[130]
18 June
General Dynamics F-111A, 67-0082, c/n A1-127, crashes near Eglin AFB, Florida, shortly after takeoff. Lost control after an external fuel fire and explosion. Unsuccessful ejection, crew killed.[131]
20 July
Lockheed SR-71A, 61-7978, Article 2029, is lost in a landing accident at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. The pilot, Capt Dennis K. Bush, and the RSO, Jimmy Fagg, are unhurt.[16]
28 August
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou A4-233, carrying three crew and 26 passengers, crashes in a remote valley south of the town of Wau in Papua New Guinea. The wreckage of the aircraft is located on 31 August following an extensive search by military and civilian aircraft. Five of the passengers survive the crash but one of them dies shortly after being rescued.[132]
29 August
A USN Kaman SH-2 Seasprite is lost at sea when it exploded on approach to an aircraft carrier. The crew were identified as Lieut. David Williams, 27 years old, of Lakewood, the pilot; Lieut j.g. Denneth A. Skogrand 25, co-pilot, and Petty Officer' Alfred G. Stymiest, 28, a crewman. Lieutenant Skogrand and Petty Officer Stymiest were from Lakehurst. The Navy said the helicopter sank yesterday in the Mediterranean area, near the coast of Spain, after one of two engines exploded while the craft approached the aircraft carrier Bowen. The helicopter was assigned to an antisubmarine squadron at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.[133]
11 September
General Dynamics F-111A, 65-5703, c/n A1-21,[134] of the 6510th Test Wing, used in spin tests out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashes,[52] impacting in the desert ~10 miles from the base in a near vertical dive at ~500 knots after the crew ejected in their escape capsule. The crew survive.[135]
10 October
Douglas A-3B Skywarrior, BuNo 138968, of VAQ-33, crashes 1.6 statute miles NW of Holland, Virginia on old Highway 58 in Nansemond (Suffolk, Virginia), off Glen Haven Drive. The crew are killed.
13 October
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a Fairchild Hiller FH-227D, T-571, c/n 572, carrying a rugby union team from Montevideo to a match in Santiago, Chile, crashes in a remote region of the Andes on the Chile-Argentina border. Of the 45 on board, 12 die in the crash, five die by the following morning, and one dies from his injuries a week later. The survivors are eventually forced to resort to cannibalism to live, feeding off the bodies of the dead preserved by the freezing temperatures. On 12 December, the remaining survivors send three of their own to find help. After sending one of the party back to the crash site to preserve rations, the remaining two find help. The 14 survivors remaining at the crash site are rescued in a mission that ends on 23 December. The story would 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, is lost in a crash. This aircraft had survived a mid-air collision on 4 May 1965 with F-106A-80-CO, 57-4721, both assigned to the 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, McGuire AFB, New Jersey, the second fighter being lost and 2528 recovering to NAFEC Atlantic City, New Jersey.[137]
19 October
A USAF Convair F-106B-55-CO Delta Dart, 57-2538, c/n 8-27-32,[136] of the Air Defense Weapons Center, Tyndall AFB, Florida, is lost in a crash,[138] pilot KWF. This second accident in three days will be the last fatal Tyndall accident until the loss of a Lockheed T-33A on 30 May 1975.[139]
30 October
First developmental model Hawker Siddeley P.1127, XP972, crashes at RAF Tangmere.
24 November
U.S. Air Force McDonnell RF-4C-24-MC Phantom II, 65-0825, c/n 1227, and McDonnell RF-4C-32-MC Phantom II, 66-0471, c/n 2651,[116] of the 62d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Shaw AFB, South Carolina, suffer a mid-air collision over the Atlantic Ocean about 30 miles off of Pawley's Island at ~1450 hrs, during a defensive combat manoeuvering mission.[140] Two crew from 0471, Capt. B. W. Stechlein and Capt. R. L. Jaeger eject,[103][104] and are recovered 27 miles out to sea by Bell UH-1N Huey, Save 53, of Detachment 8, 44th ARRSq, out of Myrtle Beach AFB, and taken to the base hospital, but two others aboard 0825, including one officer of HQ 9th Air Force, Shaw AFB, Lt. Col. Edward Cole, Jr., are lost. The second casualty was Maj. Edward W. Tate[141][142]
5 December
During an Aerospace Defense Command night training mission, Convair F-102A-80-CO Delta Dagger, 56-1517, of the 157th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, McEntire Air National Guard Base, South Carolina, collides with Lockheed C-130E Hercules, 64-0558, of the 318th Special Operations Squadron, out of Pope AFB, North Carolina, during a simulated interception, over the Bayboro area of Horry County, east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. One is killed in the Delta Dagger and all twelve on board the Hercules perish.[143][144] Some press reports list Conway, South Carolina, west of the crash site, as the location.

1973 Edit

22 January
Convair F-102A-75-CO Delta Dagger, 56-1321, of the 57th FIS, crashes into the ocean about 30 km (17 NM) from Keflavik, Iceland.[145] This brought an end to 58 months of accident free flying for the 57th. There are no other details regarding this accident at this editing.
7 February
A US Navy LTV A-7E-8-CV Corsair II, BuNo 157539, c/n E-195, of VA-195 piloted by Lt. Robert Lee Ward, 28, one of two on a routine training flight to Sacramento, California from NAS Lemoore near Fresno, California, crashes at 2013 hrs. in Alameda, after breaking formation at 28,000 feet for unexplained reasons. Fighter strikes four-story Tahoe Apartments building at 1814 Central Avenue in the city center with fire spreading to other structures, killing pilot and ten civilians, 26 injured. Navy inquiry found evidence of a cockpit fire involving the pilot's oxygen hose, and that the in-flight blaze was "very near" Ward's oxygen mask. Speculation that smoking could have caused it, but no proof. Lawsuits for more than $700,000 were filed in connection with the disaster, including a $500,000 damage action filed in Alameda County Superior Court by owner of the demolished 36-unit Tahoe Apartments.[146]
8 March
A Douglas EC-47 Skytrain, US Army tail number O-50781, built as C-47B-10-DK, USAAF 43-49137, c/n 14593/26398, to US Navy as R4D-6, BuNo 50781,[147][148][149] (R4D-6s redesignated C-47J in 1962) carrying members of the US Army Golden Knights parachute team on a recruiting tour crashes and explodes at ~0900 hrs. in a muddy cornfield on the Basil Perry farm near Silk Hope, North Carolina, while en route to their first performance of the season, at Overland Park, Kansas, killing 11 team members, two flight crew and the crew chief. The flight had departed Fort Bragg, North Carolina, at 0808 hrs. Cause was found to be overloading caused by the installation of a heavy metal plate floor, installed in Vietnam, but not entered in the logbook.[150][151][152]
8 March
Three F-4 Phantom IIs of the Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron collide during a practice session, crashing in the desert near El Centro, California, but all three pilots eject successfully and survive.[153]
8 March
"An on-ground collision between two tanker jets at Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus, Ohio, killed two crewmen and injured another seriously. The jets, two $10 million KC135s used for airborne refueling, collided as they both moved into take-off positions. One plane was loaded with fuel. One was extensively damaged by fire; the other's interior was burned."[153]
12 April
A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C-125-LO Orion, BuNo 157332, c/n 185-5547, of VP-47 and a Convair 990-30A-5, N711NA, '711', "Galileo", c/n 30-10-1, (formerly N5601G of American Airlines), belonging to NASA, collided while on final approach to NAS Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California and crashed short of the runway. The planes fell on the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course and 16 of the 17 people aboard the two planes were killed.[154]
June 20
An early U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat no. 6 flying Mach 0.95 (617 kn) at 5,000 feet (1,500 m) at 0 g shot itself down in the Pacific Missile Test Range near Point Mugu, California while testing an AIM-7E-2 Sparrow missile that launched improperly spewing debris into the left engine. The plane caught fire and lost control forcing the crew to eject. They were rescued safely.[155]
4 August
First of two prototype Boeing YQM-94A Compass Cope B long-range remotely piloted vehicles (RPV), possibly serial 70-1839, crashed during its second test flight. The U.S. Air Force decides not to order the Compass Copes into production. Second prototype is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio.[156]
22 August
RAF McDonnell Douglas/Hawker Siddeley F-4M Phantom FGR.2, XV427, 'X', of 17 Squadron, RAF Brüggen, flies into high ground at Siegen, West Germany, killing both crew. Aircraft had fallen out of a four ship formation during a turn and the pilot attempted to rejoin by 'cutting a corner' but impacted rising terrain.[157]
19 September
A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6A Intruder, BuNo 155721, 'NJ', of VA-128,[7] out of NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, crashes in the Oregon desert, ~25 miles SE of Christmas Valley, Oregon, during a low level night training mission. The pilot Lt. Alan G. Koehler, 27, and navigator Lt. Cdr. Philip D. duHamel, 33, are killed while flying (KWF). On 14 June 2007, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officially declares the crash scene a historic Federal government site at a Flag Day ceremony. An interpretive plaques was unveiled during this event reflecting this designation and depicting the historical significance of the location.[158]
24 September
RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1A, XV739, 'V', of 1 Squadron, crashes at Episkopi Cantonment, Cyprus, during the climbing transition from hover during a display rehearsal. Pilot ejects.[157]
22 October
U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing Five suffers six fatalities in night operations this date when Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A-4b-CV Corsair II BuNo 153204, 'NF-412', of VA-56,[159] flown by Lt (jg) Everett E. Goodrow, and Grumman EA-6A Prowler, BuNo 156980, c/n I-449, 'RM-611',[107] of USMC VMCJ-1 Detachment 101,[160] crewed by 1st Lts. Jot Eve and David L. Moody, fly into the sea 127 miles (204 km) east of Okinawa 11 miles (18 km) aft of USS Midway during CVW-5's initial night qualification period. "Attempting to undertake a no-radio, no navigational aids (NORDO/NONAV) approach in bad weather, the crew found themselves struggling to find 'the boat'. On hearing their radio transmissions, Lt (jg) Goodrow found the EA-6A and had the jet form up on his wing for the approach back to the ship. They shot a teardrop pattern directly over the carrier and had turned inbound to the vessel on its course when both simultaneously disappeared from radar screens. None of the aircrew attempted to eject and there were no radio transmissions made from either jet. It was subsequently assumed that both pilots had flown into the water or collided and then hit the water at about the time they would have slowed to extend their flaps, slats, and landing gear." Subsequently, in a search attempt, an H-3 'Angel', Sikorsky SH-3G Sea King, BuNo 149893, launches forward of the island, contrary to NATOPS standards, as there was no point of reference in the dark, and at high power flies straight into the water. Three of four crewmen, Lt (jg)s William J. Bates and George A. Wildridge and ADJ1 Richard H. Hall, are lost.[161][162] This was the last USMC EA-6A loss.[163]
12 November
U.S. Navy Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A-4c-CV Corsair II, BuNo 153256, 'NF', of VA-93, assigned to USS Midway, crashes into Mount Fuji during a night training flight out of NAF Atsugi, killing Lt. Richard L. "Sparky" Pierson.[164] According to fellow aviator Ens. George Zolla, of VF-161, Pierson "thought he was cleared to a lower altitude than he really was." This airframe saw combat in 1968 with VA-82.[165]
16 November
While on reserve station south of Crete, a U.S. Marine Corps Boeing-Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) loses engine power during a routine flight while hovering above the USS Barry. The helicopter, with crewmen aboard, crashes into the destroyer's ASROC deck, rolls over the starboard side, and almost immediately sinks. While no one on Barry was injured, only two of the three helicopter crew were rescued by the ship's Motor Whale Boat.
10 December
RAF English Electric Lightning F.3, XP738, 'E', of 111 Squadron, is written off when the undercarriage collapses upon landing at RAF Wattisham, Suffolk. Stripped for spares and consigned to the dump there.[157]


1974 Edit

23 January
An F-4C jet fighter crashes on the Gila Bend Gunnery Range in Gila Bend, Arizona, killing U.S. Air Force Maj. Jerry D. Whitlock and USAF Second Lieut. Jerry W. Smith.[166]
24 January
Togolese Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain, 5V-MAG, crashes during approach near the village of Sarakawa, northern Togo, killing several high-ranking military personnel. The President of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma (1935–2005), is the sole survivor.[167]
8 February
A U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52G Stratofortress, 58-0174, of the 744th BS, 456th BW, veered off the runway during night take-off from Beale AFB, California, skidded 1,500 feet (460 m) through a muddy field before overturning, destroyed by four massive explosions and fire. One crew member, the first pilot, was thrown free with severe burns, but seven others perished.[168]
9 February
Two U.S. Air Force Republic F-105 Thunderchiefs of the 457th TFTW (TH tailcode), Carswell AFB, Texas, suffer mid-air collision, downing one aircraft ~1 mile (1.6 km) from Holliday, Texas, with the pilot ejecting, suffering broken right leg on landing, recovered by helicopter. Second F-105 recovers to Carswell despite damage, pilot uninjured.[169] 1st Lt. Hayes C. Kirby in F-105D-10-RE, 60-5375, had a violent pitch up and roll in the aircraft and hit his leader in F-105D-10-RE, 60-0513. Ejected in a flat spin. Leader landed okay.[170]
9 February
A U.S. Air Force North American T-39A Sabreliner, 60-3506, returning to McClellan AFB, California, collides with a USAF Boeing NKC-135A Stratotanker at 23,000 feet (7,000 m), over Peterson Field, Colorado, killing all seven on board the T-39. The Sabreliner had experienced landing gear trouble, rendezvoused with the NKC-135 for a look-over, accidentally striking the rear fuselage and fin of the Boeing. The NKC-135, en route from Seattle, Washington, to Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, lands safely.[171][172][173]
5 March
A U.S. Navy North American RA-5C Vigilante, BuNo 149296,[174] of RVAH-3, crashes in the Gulf of Mexico 35 miles (56 km) W of Tampa, Florida, after an in-flight fire. Both crew eject, two chutes observed, but only the navigator is recovered, by a fishing boat.[175]
5 March
A USAF Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker, 57–1500, of the 91st Air Refuelling Squadron, 384th Air Refuelling Wing, crashed and burned shortly after take-off from McConnell AFB, Kansas, killing two of seven crew. Air Force spokesmen reported that the aircraft was carrying 136,000 pounds (62,000 kg) of fuel when it crashed 3,000 feet (910 m) from the main runway, after it apparently lost power.[176]
5 March
A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker of the 7th Air Refuelling Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, en route from Eielson AFB, Alaska to its homebase at Carswell AFB, Texas, suffered explosive decompression when a small window blew out at 35,000 feet (11,000 m) at 1630 hrs. EST about 40 miles (64 km) SE of Fort Nelson, British Columbia. One passenger of the 25 aboard died from the effects of the rapid decompression; others and eight crew okay. The tanker made an emergency landing at a Canadian Armed Forces Base at Edmonton, Alberta.[176][177]
16 March
A U.S. Navy A-7 Corsair II departs NAS Miramar, California, for USS Ranger (CV-61) with wings folded, crashes into a row of houses in a San Diego suburb. Lt. Robert F. Schreiber (also reported as Schreiver), 29, ejects.[164]
31 July
A U.S. Navy Grumman TE-2A Hawkeye, BuNo 150530, c/n 10,[7] 'GE 725', of RVAW-120, based at NAS Norfolk, Virginia, crashed on take-off from CGAS Elizabeth City, North Carolina, during a touch-and-go when the port engine's auto-feather system failed.[178] The pilot lost directional control, the aircraft failed to gain altitude, and struck a maintenance facility, triggering a fire in a fibreglass and upholstery shop. Instructor pilot, trapped in wreckage, three civilians killed, student pilot, and 12–18 others injured.[179]
9 August
RAF McDonnell Douglas/Hawker Siddeley F-4M Phantom FGR.2, XV493, 'F', of No. 41 Squadron is involved in fatal mid-air collision with a Piper Pawnee crop-sprayer, G-ASVK, over Fordham Fen near Downham Market, Norfolk, England. Two Phantom and one Pawnee crew all killed while flying (KWF).[180]
18 August
Lockheed C-141A Starlifter, 65-0274, of the 437th MAW, Charleston AFB, South Carolina, hits Mount Potosi at the 19,000-foot (5,800 m) level, ~17 miles (27 km) from destination, John F. Kennedy International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia, killing seven crew.[181][182][183][184]
1 September
The Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk company demonstrator N671SA crashed while attempting to recover from a roll at too low an altitude during its display at the Farnborough Air Show, United Kingdom, killing its two crew.[185]
15 September
On the third day of Naval Preliminary Evaluation (NPE-1) testing, the first prototype Sikorsky YCH-53E Sea Stallion, BuNo 159121, is destroyed at the Sikorsky plant at Stratford, Connecticut, when it rolls onto its side and burns after one of the main rotor blades detaches during a ground run. It had first flown on 1 March 1974. The second prototype is grounded while the accident is investigated, flight testing resuming on 24 January 1975.[186]

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list, accidents, incidents, involving, military, aircraft, 1970, 1974, this, list, notable, accidents, incidents, involving, military, aircraft, grouped, year, which, accident, incident, occurred, aircraft, were, operation, time, more, exhaustive, lists, aircr. 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 For more exhaustive lists see the Aircraft Crash Record Office the Air Safety Network or the Dutch Scramble Website Brush and Dustpan Database Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances Contents 1 Aircraft terminology 2 1970 3 1971 4 1972 5 1973 6 1974 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksAircraft terminology EditInformation on aircraft gives the type and if available the serial number of the operator in italics the constructors number also known as the manufacturer s serial number c n exterior codes in apostrophes nicknames if any in quotation marks flight callsign in italics and operating units 1970 Edit10 January Developmental prototype Indian Air Force HAL HF 24 Marut Mk IR HF 032 equipped with reheat crashes just after takeoff killing India s finest test pilot Suranjan Das Failure of one engine and partial failure of the second was rumored but official inquiry attributes loss to a malfunctioning canopy locking system Reheat trials do not resume until 1972 using second prototype BD 884 1 Reheat upgrades are subsequently abandoned nbsp F 106A 58 0787 on the ground after the pilot ejected 2 February Main article Cornfield Bomber A Convair F 106A 100 CO Delta Dart 58 0787 of the 71st Fighter Interceptor Squadron out of Malmstrom AFB the Cornfield Bomber piloted by Capt Gary Faust goes into a post stall gyration during a high speed rudder roll and enters a flat spin during air combat maneuvering ACM over Montana Faust follows procedures and ejects from the aircraft at 8 000 feet The resulting change of balance causes the aircraft to go nose down stabilize and it lands wheels up in a snow covered wheatfield near Big Sandy Montana suffering almost no damage The aircraft is then sent back to base by rail repaired at McClellan AFB California and returned to service 2 Preserved initially at Griffiss AFB New York it is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force 3 26 March First SEPECAT Jaguar prototype E 01 crashes during landing attempt at Centre D essais en Vol Istres Le Tube Air Base France following in flight emergency Test pilot CDT A M L Brossier shuts down starboard engine after engine bay warning due to a catastrophic fire 4 on return to base and finding the speed excessive pilot shuts down the remaining engine and thus loses the hydraulics having not selected the electrically driven hydraulic pump on Without flying controls he is obliged to eject receiving minor injuries 5 3 April A U S Air Force Boeing B 52D Stratofortress 55 089 of the 28th Bomb Wing catches fire and crashes during landing at Ellsworth AFB South Dakota skidding into a brick storage building containing 25 000 gallons of jet fuel Heroic efforts by crash crew save all nine on board although one suffered broken limbs and three firefighters were injured One of the eight jet engines ran for forty minutes following crash 6 16 April US Navy McDonnell Douglas TA 4F Skyhawk BuNo 154308 c n 13696 7 of VA 43 8 from NAS Oceana Virginia and U S Air Force North American T 39A 1 NA Sabreliner 61 0640 c n 265 43 en route from Shaw AFB South Carolina to Langley AFB Virginia collided in mid air the T 39 coming down over residential area of Weldon North Carolina but no one on the ground was injured and wreckage missed homes Skyhawk crew Lts George D Green 27 and Walter G Young 27 both of Virginia Beach Virginia were killed as it came down in a swamp area 20 miles away near Enfield North Carolina Pilot Col Francis G Halturewicz of the Sabreliner was credited with minimizing ground damage as he jettisoned most of its fuel before impact Killed were Col Ivey J Lewis Stockton California Halturewicz Maj Ronald L Edwards and T Sgt Joseph R Brown all of MacDill AFB Florida 9 18 April USMC Major General Edwin B Wheeler members of his staff and Colonel Edward A Wilcox 1st Marines on an inspection of a search and destroy operation are involved in a helicopter crash on approach to a jungle landing zone 15 miles southwest of Da Nang South Vietnam Wheeler suffers a broken leg 10 28 April A U S Air Force McDonnell Douglas F 4 Phantom II being ferried from Robins AFB Georgia to Torrejon Air Base Spain is disabled by a severe thunderstorm forcing the crew to eject at 36 000 feet 150 miles E of Charleston South Carolina suffering minor injuries from hail while descending Pilot Capt Daniel Heitz 25 of Grand Rapids Michigan and navigator Lt MacArthur Weston 28 of Jacksonville North Carolina are spotted by rescue aircraft and are recovered after two hours in the water by the oil tanker Texaco Illinois diverted from 8 miles away 11 4 May A Convair T 29 Visco 57 departs Hamilton Air Force Base California at 0800 hrs with four crew members and 10 passengers en route to Fairchild AFB Spokane Washington on a hazy but otherwise clear morning Just minutes after takeoff it clips a ridge SE of Petaluma crashes and burns killing 13 of those on board 12 13 6 May USAF RF 4C 21 MC Phantom II 64 1018 14 AR tailcode of 1st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing based at RAF Alconbury in England and on Defensive Combat Manouvres over the English Peak District crashes in woods at Unthank near Dronfield in Derbyshire England Crew ejects over Curbar Edge in Derbyshire The pilot Major Don Tokar 37 of Colorado Springs Colorado suffers a compound leg fracture after landing in rocks The navigator Major Peter Dunn 34 of Salem Illinois escapes with minor cuts and lacerations sustained on landing 15 10 May Lockheed SR 71A 61 7969 Article 2020 crashed near Korat RTAFB Thailand after a refuelling resulted in a subsonic high speed stall Pilot Lawson and RSO Martinez eject safely 16 11 May An F5 tornado strikes Lubbock Texas destroying about one quarter of the city Nineteen of 23 U S Air Force trainers probably Cessna T 41 Mescaleros at Lubbock International Airport are destroyed amongst 100 aircraft damaged 17 12 May Indian Air Force prototype HAL HF 24 Marut HF 001 BR 461 is lost due to unknown circumstances in the sea off of Goa while on routine ferry flight Squadron Leader K L Narayan is lost with aircraft 1 22 May A U S Air Force Lockheed T 33A Shooting Star of the 1st Composite Wing Andrews AFB Maryland crashes just short of the north runway on approach to that base killing pilot Maj John H McDowell Jr 37 Clinton Maryland and Lt Edwin D Billmeyer 24 of Baltimore Maryland and injuring three motorists on the ground 18 24 May A U S Air Force Lockheed C 5A Galaxy makes an emergency landing at Dobbins AFB Georgia suffering an electrical malfunction that knocks out landing lights causes minor damage to the nosegear and flattens four of 28 tires 19 27 May A U S Air Force Lockheed C 5A Galaxy 67 0172 c n 500 0011 catches fire while taxiing at Air Force Plant 42 Palmdale California due to an electrical fire in the cargo compartment Five crew escape but seven firefighters suffer minor injuries fighting blaze 19 Aircraft destroyed June RAF Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C 1 XP441 of No 114 Squadron RAF written off during training accident at RAF Benson when aircraft bounces heavily during three engine approach attempts a go around but pilot inexpertly retracts the flaps stalls comes down in Mr Passey s junk yard in the village of Benson Crew remarkably is uninjured 20 6 June A U S Air Force Lockheed C 5A Galaxy 68 0212 c n 500 0015 fifteenth off the production line but first to be delivered to any operational Military Airlift Command wing loses one tire and blows another on landing at Charleston AFB South Carolina for the 437th MAW 21 11 June A U S Navy Grumman A 6A Intruder No 156998 flown by pilot LT James D Maynard age 25 and bombardier LTJG William H Van Stone Jr of VA 145 stationed at NAS Whidbey Island Washington crashed while on a routine practice bombing run over the Boardman Bombing Range near Boardman Oregon Although both crewmen ejected the 23 year old Van Stone did not survive 22 17 June Lockheed SR 71A 61 7970 Item 2021 collides with KC 135Q tanker 20 miles E of El Paso Texas Pilot Buddy Brown and RSO Mort Jarvis eject safely Tanker limps back to Beale Air Force Base California 23 nbsp Lt j g William Belden ejects from an A 4E Skyhawk on the deck of the USS Shangri La circa 29 July 1970 Photo by Photographers Mate Keith Guthrie of Palatka Florida Both pilot and Skyhawk recovered Navy photo NH 90350 24 27 June Rawalpindi Pakistan Cessna L 19 Bird Dog of No 4 Army Aviation Squadron Dhamial Air Base piloted by Major Tahir Mahmood Jilani with Observer Captain Noor Mohammed went missing while on search and recovery mission to locate a drowned military officer Captain Bahadur s body over the mighty river Indus near Kalabagh Khushal Garh area No debris or bodies were located in the very extensive ground and aerial search that followed however 18 July Main article 1970 Atlantic Ocean Antonov An 22 crash Soviet Air Force Antonov An 22 c n 00340207 CCCP 09303 of the 81st Military Transport Aviation Regiment crashes in the Atlantic Ocean killing all 22 on board cause never fully determined but decompression was theorized The aircraft was transporting humanitarian aid to Peru following an earthquake All pressurized An 22s are grounded following the crash 24 July U S Air Force McDonnell Douglas F 4C 20 MC Phantom II 63 7609 crashes 25 SE of McNeal Arizona 26 Circa 29 July Lt j g William Belden 23 of Racine Wisconsin ejects from a McDonnell Douglas A 4E Skyhawk on the deck of the USS Shangri La in the western Pacific Pilot recovered shaken but unhurt by helicopter Skyhawk later recovered from carrier catwalk 24 30 July USMC Lockheed KC 130F Hercules BuNo 150685 c n 3728 of VMGR 152 crashed at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro Lake Forest California during misjudged maximum effort landing wings broke fuselage ended up overturned burned 3 August A Lockheed P 3A 55 LO Orion BuNo 152159 c n 185 5129 7 ZE 06 of VP 17 NAS Barbers Point Hawaii explodes in flight after takeoff from Nellis AFB Nevada crashing near Searchlight Nevada killing all ten aboard The cause of the accident was never determined 27 5 August A U S Air Force McDonnell Douglas F 4 Phantom II of the 36th TFW Bitburg Germany TDY to Zaragoza Air Base Spain crashes on a gunnery range 25 miles from Zaragoza killing pilot Capt Charles A Baldwin 28 of Charleston West Virginia and navigator Capt Stephen N Smith 27 of Pinebrook New Jersey 28 25 August A Lockheed TF 104G Starfighter 27 30 c n 5732 of MFG 1 Marineflieger downed by engine failure due to FOD shortly after take off from Jagel Air Base at Glucksburg in northern West Germany both crew ejecting safely Although the cause of the crash was not immediately known a spokesman said it might have been struck by a bird in flight This was the 122nd West German Starfighter crash since the type entered service in 1961 29 1 September A Vought F 8J Crusader BuNo 150329 30 of VF 24 suffers ramp strike on the USS Hancock and explodes during night carrier qualifications killing Lt Darrell N Eggert 31 8 September USAF Captain William Schaffner on exchange with the Royal Air Force crashes his BAC Lightning Foxtrot 94 into the North Sea off Flamborough Head while on an intercept exercise Schaffner flies too low and impacts the water he attempts to bail out but his ejector seat fails The aircraft is recovered three months later but Captain Schaffner s body is never found There is unfounded speculation that Schaffner was the victim of an alien abduction 32 8 September US Marine Corps Capt Patrick G Carroll 27 of El Toro California ejects safely Tuesday moments before his Douglas A 4E Skyhawk BuNo 150089 crashes in a remote area 20 miles N of Big Bear California in Lucerne Valley at 1528 hrs The impact touches off a 30 acre brushfire in Lovelace Canyon south and west of the Lucerne Valley which was still burning the following day Eight retardant dropping fire bombers are diverted from another blaze near Devore California in the Cajon Pass to help contain the burn A total of 12 California Division of Forestry and other trucks are also dispatched to the site to fight the fire The pilot who was flying N over Big Bear Lake on a navigation training flight suffered an undetermined malfunction said a public information spokesman at MCAS El Toro California He was seen as he ejected by a gas company serviceman James Kennedy who picked him up and drove him to near by Sky High Ranch Carroll a Vietnam veteran is picked up by a rescue helicopter from George Air Force Base California and was not injured Firefighters were hindered by rough rocky terrain and a truck that overturned on an access road blocking the path for over an hour Fire crew were lifted to the site by helicopter or had to walk in 1 1 2 miles from Highway 18 near the Lucerne Valley CDF officials expected the blaze to be contained by 1800 hrs 9 September unless winds developed 33 34 29 October The crash of a U S Army Beechcraft U 8F Seminole 62 3865 c n LF 63 35 at Tri State Airport Kenova West Virginia kills General Edwin H Burba two warrant officers and seriously injures Burba s aide Burba was en route to Morehead Kentucky and Morehead State University to participate in ceremonies honoring that institution s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Program and to present the Outstanding Service Civilian Award the Army s highest civilian award to his friend and the school s president Dr Adron Doran Traffic controllers at the southwestern West Virginia airport located near the Ohio and Kentucky borders said that one of the co pilots radioed that they had an engine out and were attempting to land on instruments Moments later the twin engined aircraft crashed into trees in heavy rain and fog coming down three quarters of a mile west of the airport s main runway Burba 58 died in the accident as did CW2 Paul R Burt and CW3 Maynard R Reisinger Aide Capt James B Bickerton was listed in critical condition in hospital where he was admitted to surgery General Burba became deputy commander of the First Army in 1968 He served in Africa and Europe during World War II and was wounded in Tunisia in 1943 He served twice in Korea His medals include the Silver Star Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart 36 Kelly Pool at Fort George Meade Maryland was renamed Burba Lake in his honor during a dedication ceremony on Memorial Day 31 May 1971 37 Crash cause was determined to be due to a fatal design flaw in the fuel cross feed system 38 11 November A U S Air Force McDonnell F 4C 24 MC Phantom II 64 0863 c n 1238 39 WS tailcode of the 91st Tactical Fighter Squadron 81st Tactical Fighter Wing 40 crashes in the North Sea after an engine fire Both crew eject Capt Johnny Jones 28 of Snow Hill North Carolina and Capt David Allen 27 of Darien Connecticut are rescued by helicopter officials at Ruislip England said 41 15 November US Navy Grumman S 2 Tracker crashes at Fort Dix New Jersey killing four Wreckage found on 16 November in wooded area off Range Road Killed were pilot Navy Lt J G James K Larson 24 of Milltown New Jersey co pilot 1st Lt USMC Carleton C Perine 25 of Orange New Jersey and passengers Navy Airman Apprentice Robert Suttle 20 of Bricktown New Jersey and Navy Airman Apprentice Gary B Warner 19 of Central Bridge New York 42 16 November A U S Navy McDonnell Douglas F 4J 42 MC Phantom II BuNo 155903 40 43 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 30 miles E of the Virginia Capes shortly after launch from the carrier USS Forrestal Two crew out of NAS Oceana Virginia are lost the Navy reported 17 November Pilot was Lt j g John Dale O Connor and RSO was Lt j g Thomas F Hanagan both of Virginia Beach Virginia They were attached to VF 101 a fighter squadron based at NAS Oceana at Virginia Beach 44 24 November Lockheed U 2R 68 10335 Article 057 seventh airframe of the first R model order first flown 30 July 1968 registered N815X delivered to the CIA 29 August 1968 Crashes at Taoyuan Air Base Taiwan on landing after a routine high altitude training flight this date ROCAF pilot Capt Denny Huang KWF At touchdown he skips slightly and begins drifting to starboard Exacerbated by a 12 knot crosswind the aircraft leaves the runway whereupon the pilot applies power to go around Before the engine spools up the airframe strikes a six foot high runway marker Begins a slow climbing turn to port but nose high angle causes stall jet crashes and burns The Accident Board recommends that the Dash One pilot s manual be amended to emphasize that a go around should not be attempted after loss of directional control on landing This was the first loss of an R model 45 15 December RAF English Electric Canberra B I 8 XM267 E of No 3 F Squadron crashed at RAF Akrotiri Cyprus while on detachment from Squadron base at RAF Laarbruch Germany On approach to Akrotiri runway pilot elected to carry out an over shoot When both engines were throttled up the starboard engine responded and increased power port engine failed to respond The effect of this was the aircraft cartwheeled and port wing hit the ground killing both crew and passenger Pilot F O R Ellis Navigator F O R MacMillan one passenger Senior Aircraftman Kim Petty Fitzmaurice 15 December U S Navy Grumman C 2A Greyhound BuNo 155120 of VRC 50 out of NAS Atsugi 46 crashes on takeoff from USS Ranger in the Gulf of Tonkin Stalled after catapult launch with a probable load shift of the cargo reaches extreme nose up attitude goes into a hammerhead stall and crashes off the carrier s port bow 9 killed 7 missing 7 47 19 December Soviet Air Force Antonov An 22 c n 9340205 CCCP 09305 crashes at Panagarh Airport India while attempting a belly landing killing all 17 on board Forty minutes after takeoff from Dhaka one of the propeller blades separated destroying engine control cables The crew began descending and was attempting an emergency wheels up landing when the aircraft crashed 48 30 December Prototype Tomcat Grumman F 14 01 GR Tomcat 157980 suffers hydraulic fluid leak on second flight crew attempts return to Grumman plant at Calverton New York but loses flight controls just before crossing airfield threshold both crew eject as airframe plunges into woods short of runway 49 1971 Edit7 January Main article 1971 B 52C Lake Michigan crash An unarmed U S Air Force Boeing B 52C Stratofortress 54 2666 callsign Hiram 16 of the 99th Bombardment Wing Heavy Westover AFB Massachusetts crashes into Lake Michigan near Charlevoix Michigan during a practice bomb run following wing failure exploding on impact Only a small amount of wreckage two life vests and some spilled fuel was found in Little Traverse Bay Bomber went down six nautical miles from the Bay Shore Air Force Radar Site Nine crew killed while flying KWF 50 The left wing spars had snapped in two due to fatigue causing the wing to fail between the left two engine pods 8 January General Dynamics FB 111A 68 0283 c n B1 55 51 of the 340th Bombardment Group Medium Carswell AFB Texas on its acceptance test flight from the General Dynamics Plant in Fort Worth crashes three miles NE of Mandeville Louisiana killing both crew Lt Col Bruce D Stocks 38 and Maj Billy C Gentry 36 52 Over 125 aircraft including Air Force planes from Carswell and Sheppard Air Force Bases of the Civil Air Patrol 77 from the Fort Worth area and 55 from San Antonio and the Coast Guard logged more than 275 flight hours in the search by 11 January 53 The search was expanded into Louisiana and Mississippi on 13 January We suspect the plane may have traveled into the areas of Louisiana southern Mississippi and East Texas said Capt Tom Lauterback information officer at Carswell AFB on Wednesday 13 January 54 Escape module with crew s remains not found until 2 February three weeks after the loss A parachute was found hanging from a nearby tree but it did not deploy in time to save the airmen 55 An FB 111A escape module displayed at the Strategic Air and Space Museum Ashland Nebraska is said to be from this accident 51 21 January An Armee de l Air Nord 262A 34 44 F RBOA c n 44 delivered January 1969 56 on a flight from Paris to the isotope separation plant at Pierrelatte France crashes on a snow covered peak in Southern France in a blizzard killing all 21 on board including 13 of the nation s top experts on nuclear weapons and atomic production They were on their way for a meeting of the scientists to coordinate projects of the Atomic Energy Commission and the armed forces A helicopter pilot who flew over the scene said that only the tail was intact and that no one could have survived the crash Icing was initially speculated as a possible cause 57 The crew had been cleared by Marseilles ACC at FL 80 to the Montelimar MTL VOR and FL50 afterwards FL80 was the minimum safe altitude level between CMF Clermont Ferrand and MTL Controllers at the time considered it possible that the pilot might have retained the FL50 as the final clearance and had disregarded the initial FL80 instruction 58 Among the victims were Rear Adm Robert Landrin 55 deputy chief of staff of the armed forces and Jacques Mabile production director of the AEC and the man credited with developing France s uranium resources Others included Gen Edouard Billion 54 head of nuclear affairs in the arms division of the Defense Ministry Gen Jean Marc Pineau 48 chief of planning for the chiefs of staff and three of his senior officers Jean la Bussiere AEC financial director Hubert de la Boylaye head of the commission s radiological safety division and Georges Tirole AEC deputy director for military applications One source identified the crash site as Gerbier du Jonc peak 57 while another states that the twin engine turboprop struck Suc de Pradou a 1342 m high mountain and came to rest 200 m below the summit 58 59 nbsp Test pilot Stuart Present ejects safely from crashing LLTV NASA 29 January 1971 29 January A Lunar Landing Training Vehicle crashes at Ellington AFB Texas NASA test pilot Stuart Present ejects safely 19 February A Beechcraft L 23 crashes into Mt Sanford at the 14 800 elevation level east of Glennallen Alaska The plane was enroute from Sharp Army Depot in Stockton CA to Anchorage Alaska and had a two week delay in Whitehorse British Columbia due to mechanical problems The plane was carrying Lt Col William Caldwell Maj Steven W Henault and Sgt Herbert Alex There were no survivors 26 February A Luftwaffe Lockheed F 104G Starfighter 22 64 c n 7145 of Detachment Deci crashes during a gunnery training flight on the Fransca range over the Italian island of Sardinia after its pilot parachutes to safety the defense ministry said making it the 128th crash of the type since entering German service in 1961 60 Engine failure due to FOD 15 April Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin Russian engineer and former cosmonaut 1 April 1910 15 April 1986 is injured in the crash of a Tupolev Tu 16 into the Aral Sea while the bomber was flying parabolas for zero G tests of the engine of the Molniya Block L upper stage to study why the stage was continually failing to restart in earth orbit 61 23 April A U S Air Force General Dynamics F 111E 67 0117 c n A1 162 E 3 out of Edwards Air Force Base California crashes in a rocky area of the Mojave Desert 12 miles S of Death Valley National Monument during test flight 62 both crew pilot Maj James W Hurt 34 of Indianapolis Indiana and WSO Maj Robert J Furman 31 of New York City killed when parachute on escape module fails to open until just before ground impact Both bodies were inside the escape module when it is found on Saturday 24 April Aircraft experienced trouble at 6 000 feet This was the 18th crash of the type since entering service and the second fatal accident this year when the module chute failed to properly deploy 63 All F 111s are grounded on Thursday 30 April 64 after it is determined that the recovery chute compartment door failed to separate making crew escape impossible This was the sixth grounding order for the type since it entered operation 65 66 Grounding order lifted 8 June 1971 during which time the panel that failed in this accident was replaced 67 6 June USMC McDonnell Douglas F 4B 18 MC Phantom II BuNo 151458 of VMFA 323 en route from NAS Fallon Nevada to MCAS El Toro California collides in mid air with Hughes Airwest Flight 706 a DC 9 31 N9345 out of Los Angeles International Airport at 1811 hrs over the San Gabriel Mountains N of Duarte California Collision at 15 150 feet altitude killed F 4 pilot 1st Lt James R Phillips 28 of Denver Colorado inoperable canopy release the RIO ejecting and landing near Azusa California All 44 passengers and five crew members were killed aboard the DC 9 which impacted into a remote canyon of Mt Bliss approximately three miles N of the city of Duarte The wreckage of the F 4B fighter landed in another canyon approximately 75 miles SE of the DC 9 s crash site Although visibility was good with no clouds both crews failed to see and avoid each other The Airwest DC 9 jetliner was under radar control but the F 4B fighter was flying with an inoperable transponder that made it invisible on air traffic control radar screens The RIO Lt Christopher E Schiess 24 of Salem Oregon admitted to inquiry board that the F 4B had performed a 360 degree slow roll about a minute before the collision One of the early leaders of campus antiwar activism Prof Arnold Saul Kaufman at the University of Michigan in 1965 now Philosophy professor at UCLA was killed aboard the DC 9 68 69 70 71 13 June A USAF Boeing EC 135N 61 0331 c n 18238 of the 4950th Test Wing Space and Missile Systems Organization SAMSO Wright Patterson AFB Ohio en route from Pago Pago American Samoa to Hickam AFB Hawaii after monitoring the French Encelade atmospheric nuclear test conducted 12 June 1971 disappears over the Pacific Ocean 70 miles S of Hawaii near Palmyra Island Twelve military personnel and twelve civilians are lost Only small bits of wreckage found 72 73 15 June Lockheed NF 104A Starfighter 56 0756 c n 183 1044 assigned to Aerospace Research Pilot School Edwards Air Force Base California suffers second rocket explosion this date blowing the whole rocket motor and part of rudder off in flight at 35 000 ft and Mach 1 15 74 Pilot Capt Howard C Thompson lands safely but as the NF 104 project is due to end soon aircraft is written off and portions of it used to create the composite 760 sitting on a pole at the Air Force Flight Test Center Edwards Air Force Base 75 30 June The crew of Soyuz 11 Georgi Dobrovolski Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov are killed after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three week stay A valve on their spacecraft accidentally opens when the service module separates letting their air leak out into space The capsule reenters and lands normally and their deaths are only discovered when it is opened by the recovery team Technically the only fatalities in space above 100 km 76 8 July Israel s military command said on 9 July that 10 Israeli soldiers are missing and presumed killed in the crash of a helicopter in the Mediterranean off the Sinai coast The announcement said the helicopter went down Thursday afternoon It was the heaviest reported loss of life involving Israeli troops since the Arab Israeli cease fire began last Aug 8 There was no explanation for the crash off the occupied Sinai tour sic of El Arish but an Israeli spokesman ruled out any Arab involvement Thursday was a perfect flying day in Israel with clear skies and no clouds Israeli planes and rescue ships searched the area but found neither wreckage nor survivors The military command said a committee had been set up to investigate the crash 77 The Sikorsky CH 53 Yas ur crashed into the sea off the Sinai coast killing 10 soldiers and officers as they returned to Israel following a mission 78 79 12 July Piper PA 48 Enforcer N202PE c n PE2 1001 crashes after structural failure due to flutter caused by a Piper modified elevator trim tab off of Vero Beach Florida 80 Four of the heavily modified turbine powered TF 51 derivatives were built for the counter insurgency role with two tested at Eglin AFB Florida in 1983 1984 but no orders were ever placed 27 July Indian Air Force production HAL HF 24 Marut Mk 1 flown by Wing Commander J K Mohlah crashes just after takeoff at Bangalore pilot KWF 1 30 July At 1400 hrs a Japanese Air Self Defense Force North American F 86F Sabre 92 7932 collides in mid air at FL280 with All Nippon Airways Flight 58 a Boeing 727 281 JA8329 on a regional flight between Sapporo and Tokyo Haneda The student pilot was not watching out for other traffic in the training area and when the instructor warned him to break away from approaching jetliner it is too late the Sabre s right wing striking the 727s left horizontal stabilizer All seven crew and 155 passengers on the Boeing were killed wreckage coming down near Shizukuishi F 86F crew ejects 81 All Japanese military aircraft were immediately grounded while investigation took place 82 18 August US Army CH 47A 66 19023 c n B 281 of the 4th Aviation Company 15th Aviation Group crashes near Pegnitz when the aft rotor blades fail due to fatigue and separate killing all 37 on board The helicopter was transporting soldiers of the Heavy Mortar Platoon 2nd Battalion 4th Infantry Regiment 56th Field Artillery Brigade from battalion headquarters in Ludwigsburg to Grafenwoehr for live fire training exercises A memorial plaque was placed near the crash site in the forest outside Pegnitz but this was stolen in 2009 83 84 20 August A Pakistan Air Force T 33 trainer is hijacked this date before the Indo Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman knocks out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets On regaining consciousness in mid flight Minhas struggles for flight control as well as relaying the news of his hijack to the PAF base In the end of the ensuing struggle he succeeds to crash his aircraft into the ground near Thatta on seeing no way to prevent the hijack and the defection He was posthumously awarded Pakistan s highest military award Nishan e Haider Sign of the Lion for his act of bravery 85 86 87 88 89 Matiur Rahman was awarded Bangladesh s highest military award Bir Sreshtho for his attempt to defect to join the civil war in East Pakistan modern day Bangladesh 87 11 September Lockheed C 121 Constellation of the West Virginia Air National Guard carrying five state governors to a conference in Puerto Rico experiences engine problems force lands at Homestead AFB Florida Governors of Connecticut Minnesota Montana Texas and Utah transfer to another aircraft to continue flight 90 13 September A People s Liberation Army Air Force Trident 1E crashed in Mongolia under mysterious circumstances during an attempt by Lin Biao and his family to defect to the Soviet Union according to the official view of the PRC Official PRC accounts claim that the Trident ran out of fuel 91 28 September A U S Navy Lockheed P 3 Orion on patrol over the Sea of Japan is fired on by a Soviet Sverdlov class cruiser in international waters The P 3 was checking a group of Soviet Navy ships cruising off the shore of Japan when crew members reported seeing tracer rounds fired well ahead of the Orion Immediately following the incident authorities recalled the P 3 to its base at MCAS Iwakuni and all surveillance craft were pulled back five miles 92 93 29 September A U S Air Force Lockheed C 5A Galaxy of the 443d Military Airlift Wing Altus AFB Oklahoma one of six used for training had its number one port outer engine tear off the pylon while advancing take off power before brake release setting the wing on fire The crew evacuated safely within 90 seconds and the fire was extinguished by emergency equipment The engine had flown up and behind the Galaxy landing some 250 yards to the rear The Air Force subsequently grounded six other C 5s with similar flight hours and cycles Further investigation found cracks in younger C 5s and the entire fleet was grounded 94 95 12 October A RAF McDonnell Douglas Hawker Siddeley F 4M Phantom FGR 2 XV479 J of No 54 Squadron 96 on a training mission crashes into a farm house near Holstebro Denmark due to engine failure on take off 97 killing a woman and her child Police and rescuers who rushed to the scene could do nothing to save them from the burning house The crew of two parachutes to safety after problems with engine reheat 98 19 October Grumman E 2B Hawkeye BuNo 151721 c n 41 NF 013 of VAW 115 99 and LTV A 7B 4 CV Corsair II BuNo 154539 c n B 179 7 both from the USS Midway collide over the Sea of Japan while both were preparing to land aboard with E 2 crashing near the stern of the carrier all five crew lost A 7 pilot ejected safely picked up by helicopter from MCAS Iwakuni in good condition 100 29 October A U S Air Force Lockheed T 33A Shooting Star crashes near Kadena Air Base Okinawa both crew ejecting before the airframe impacted in a sugar cane field one seriously injured one with minor injuries 101 November Two ex U S Navy Sikorsky SH 34J Seabat BuNos 143934 c n 58 698 and 143941 c n 58 722 obtained by Uruguay s Aviacion Naval Naval Aviation in October 1971 as A 061 and A 062 collide in midair during a public demonstration over a crowded beach killing eight over thirty injured both airframes destroyed 102 7 November A U S Air Force McDonnell F 4D 27 MC Phantom II 65 0653 c n 1657 HO tailcode of the 7th TFS 49th TFW 103 based at Holloman AFB New Mexico and a U S Air Force Convair F 106A 130 CO Delta Dart 59 0125 104 of the 84th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Hamilton AFB California collide in mid air and crash in isolated areas near Nellis AFB Nevada All three crew eject and survive F 4 crew Maj Henry J Viccellio and Maj James A Robertson okay Phantom comes down 35 miles from Caliente Nevada Delta Dart attempts recovery to Nellis but pilot Maj Clifford L Lowrey ejects eight miles NE of base 105 12 November Air Force Lockheed C 130E Hercules 69 6578 c n 4353 of the 61st Tactical Airlift Squadron 314th Tactical Airlift Wing crashed due to fin stall on take off from Little Rock Air Force Base Arkansas 15 November A U S Navy Grumman A 6A Intruder BuNo 151563 of VA 42 on a maintenance test flight out of NAS Oceana Virginia suffers failure of the drogue chute gun in the pilot s ejection seat pulling the two ejection seat cables and ejecting Lt Dalton C Wright The bombardier navigator Lt John W Adair with no pilot in the aircraft is forced to eject Jet comes down 15 miles from Oceana The Navy investigation later determines that five or six flight accidents and one hangar accident may have been caused by the same problem One source cites date of 15 October 1971 106 107 16 November Republic F 84F 25 GK Thunderstreak 51 9371 108 of the 170th Tactical Fighter Squadron 183d Tactical Fighter Group Illinois Air National Guard 109 loses a wing during exercises at the Hardwood Air to Ground Weapons Range R 6904 near Finley Wisconsin under the control of Volk Field Air National Guard Base Wisconsin 110 caused by the failure of the milkbone joining bolt in the main wing weakened by years of flying Pilot killed 111 The Guard still had 56 F 84Fs in November 1971 when this serious accident occurred due to structural corrosion The 183rd Tactical Fighter Group Springfield Ill the only ANG unit still equipped with F 84Fs was programmed for F 4C aircraft and over 90 percent of the grounded F 84Fs showed signs of stress corrosion Hence no repairs were made In February 1972 however the Air Force used two ANG F 84Fs in developing repair procedures that would be offered to the many allied nations using the elderly aircraft 112 Some 25 30 of the 183d Thunderstreaks were ferried to Eglin AFB Florida in February 1972 for use as targets on the test ranges although one airframe was later retrieved for the infant Air Force Armament Museum 18 November Lockheed U 2A 56 6952 Article 392 second airframe of the USAF supplementary production delivered in January 1958 and assigned to the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Laughlin AFB Texas Converted to U 2C by November 1966 Assigned to training flights at Davis Monthan AFB Arizona in 1969 Destroyed this date at Davis Monthan in a fatal landing accident Pilot was Capt John Cunney who lands heavily wing low attempts go around but stalls and crashes onto the runway 113 1972 Edit18 January General Dynamics F 111E CF 68 018 c n A1 127 E 28 51 114 tailcode JS 115 out of RAF Upper Heyford crashes on high ground in Scotland both crew are killed 19 February Lockheed C 130E Hercules 62 1813 c n 3775 of the 16th Tactical Airlift Training Squadron collides in mid air with a Cessna T 37 Tweet from Biggs AFB Texas 6 km NE of Little Rock Arkansas four persons on the Hercules are killed The two Tweet pilots eject safely 14 March Two USAF McDonnell Douglas F 4 Phantom IIs collide in mid air over the town of El Buste Spain about 30 miles from the joint US Spanish base at Zaragoza F 4D 28 MC 65 0708 c n 1753 103 and F 4D 31 MC 66 7651 c n 2231 116 both of the 23d Tactical Fighter Squadron 36th Tactical Fighter Wing are lost 104 and all four crewmen are killed Debris showers down onto the town damaging communications and starting several roof fires but there are no injuries to townspeople The aircraft were returning to base in strong winds and broken clouds after a routine gunnery mission 117 7651 was the first block 31 airframe 116 23 March A McDonnell F 101B Voodoo of the 119th Fighter Wing North Dakota Air National Guard crashes into a house at 1121 26th Street N Fargo North Dakota killing the pilot 1st Lt Burton D Humphrey and injuring Mrs Gerald Reed in the house The weapon systems officer 2nd Lt Sanford O Borlaug ejects from the aircraft and survives with injuries 118 31 March Twenty minutes after take off from McCoy AFB Florida a USAF Boeing B 52D Stratofortress AF Ser No 56 0625 of the 306th Bomb Wing suffers an in flight fire in engine number seven which spreads to engine number eight and the starboard wing During an attempted emergency landing at McCoy it crashes a quarter mile north of Runway 18R 36L and destroys four homes in a civilian residential area killing the entire crew of six on board and one civilian on the ground Eight civilians on the ground are injured 119 120 2 April US Army UH 1 Huey helicopter 66 15230 crashes near Rock Springs Wyoming having taken off that morning from Cheyenne Wyoming The aircraft had undergone maintenance at the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas and was being ferried to Boise Idaho The pilot Army Captain Bruce R Larson of Clearwater Florida was killed when it went down 121 8 April Hawker Siddeley Andover C 1 XS609 bound for the United Kingdom carrying an 18 man paratroop exhibition team crashes on take off at Siena Italy digging in its starboard wingtip before skidding 300 yards across the airfield and catching fire Of the 21 on board four are killed and four injured most escaping before the fuel tanks ignited 122 123 14 April A Marine Corp Reserve pilot is killed in a night accident when he ejects from his McDonnell Douglas A 4C Skyhawk BuNo 147824 c n 12588 124 after tire failure on landing at MCAS El Toro California Although he clears the airframe before it veers off the runway and into a fuel truck authorities said the pilot bounced several times on the runway after ejecting 125 126 127 15 April A U S Marine Corps Reserve pilot ejects safely from his McDonnell Douglas A 4C Skyhawk BuNo 148480 c n 12673 124 as it catches fire and explodes over the surf at Newport Beach California in front of hundreds of beachgoers during the weekend The aircraft had just left MCAS El Toro when the fire warning light came on 128 10 May Khong quan Nhan dan Việt Nam Vietnam People s Air Force Shenyang J 6 of the Trung đoan Khong quan Tiem kich 925 925th Fighter Regiment runs out of fuel after a CAP mission deadsticks from an altitude of 1 400 meters descends too rapidly and overruns the runway at Yen Bai Air Base North Vietnam It overturns and explodes killing the pilot instantly 129 4 June The USAF Thunderbirds suffer their first fatal crash at an air show during Transpo 72 at Dulles International Airport Major Joe Howard flying Thunderbird 3 McDonnell Douglas F 4E 32 MC Phantom II 66 0321 experiences a loss of power during a vertical manoeuver and breaks out of the formation just after it completes a wedge roll and was ascending at 2 500 feet AGL The aircraft staggers and then descends in a flat attitude with little forward speed Although Major Howard ejects as the aircraft falls back to earth from 1 500 feet slightly nose low and descends under a good C 9 canopy winds blow him into the ascending fireball The parachute melts and the pilot plummets 200 feet sustaining fatal injuries in the fall 130 18 June General Dynamics F 111A 67 0082 c n A1 127 crashes near Eglin AFB Florida shortly after takeoff Lost control after an external fuel fire and explosion Unsuccessful ejection crew killed 131 20 July Lockheed SR 71A 61 7978 Article 2029 is lost in a landing accident at Kadena Air Base Okinawa The pilot Capt Dennis K Bush and the RSO Jimmy Fagg are unhurt 16 28 August Royal Australian Air Force RAAF de Havilland Canada DHC 4 Caribou A4 233 carrying three crew and 26 passengers crashes in a remote valley south of the town of Wau in Papua New Guinea The wreckage of the aircraft is located on 31 August following an extensive search by military and civilian aircraft Five of the passengers survive the crash but one of them dies shortly after being rescued 132 29 August A USN Kaman SH 2 Seasprite is lost at sea when it exploded on approach to an aircraft carrier The crew were identified as Lieut David Williams 27 years old of Lakewood the pilot Lieut j g Denneth A Skogrand 25 co pilot and Petty Officer Alfred G Stymiest 28 a crewman Lieutenant Skogrand and Petty Officer Stymiest were from Lakehurst The Navy said the helicopter sank yesterday in the Mediterranean area near the coast of Spain after one of two engines exploded while the craft approached the aircraft carrier Bowen The helicopter was assigned to an antisubmarine squadron at Lakehurst Naval Air Station 133 11 September General Dynamics F 111A 65 5703 c n A1 21 134 of the 6510th Test Wing used in spin tests out of Edwards Air Force Base California crashes 52 impacting in the desert 10 miles from the base in a near vertical dive at 500 knots after the crew ejected in their escape capsule The crew survive 135 10 October Douglas A 3B Skywarrior BuNo 138968 of VAQ 33 crashes 1 6 statute miles NW of Holland Virginia on old Highway 58 in Nansemond Suffolk Virginia off Glen Haven Drive The crew are killed 13 October Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 a Fairchild Hiller FH 227D T 571 c n 572 carrying a rugby union team from Montevideo to a match in Santiago Chile crashes in a remote region of the Andes on the Chile Argentina border Of the 45 on board 12 die in the crash five die by the following morning and one dies from his injuries a week later The survivors are eventually forced to resort to cannibalism to live feeding off the bodies of the dead preserved by the freezing temperatures On 12 December the remaining survivors send three of their own to find help After sending one of the party back to the crash site to preserve rations the remaining two find help The 14 survivors remaining at the crash site are rescued in a mission that ends on 23 December The story would 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 is lost in a crash This aircraft had survived a mid air collision on 4 May 1965 with F 106A 80 CO 57 4721 both assigned to the 539th Fighter Interceptor Squadron McGuire AFB New Jersey the second fighter being lost and 2528 recovering to NAFEC Atlantic City New Jersey 137 19 October A USAF Convair F 106B 55 CO Delta Dart 57 2538 c n 8 27 32 136 of the Air Defense Weapons Center Tyndall AFB Florida is lost in a crash 138 pilot KWF This second accident in three days will be the last fatal Tyndall accident until the loss of a Lockheed T 33A on 30 May 1975 139 30 October First developmental model Hawker Siddeley P 1127 XP972 crashes at RAF Tangmere 24 November U S Air Force McDonnell RF 4C 24 MC Phantom II 65 0825 c n 1227 and McDonnell RF 4C 32 MC Phantom II 66 0471 c n 2651 116 of the 62d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron 363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing Shaw AFB South Carolina suffer a mid air collision over the Atlantic Ocean about 30 miles off of Pawley s Island at 1450 hrs during a defensive combat manoeuvering mission 140 Two crew from 0471 Capt B W Stechlein and Capt R L Jaeger eject 103 104 and are recovered 27 miles out to sea by Bell UH 1N Huey Save 53 of Detachment 8 44th ARRSq out of Myrtle Beach AFB and taken to the base hospital but two others aboard 0825 including one officer of HQ 9th Air Force Shaw AFB Lt Col Edward Cole Jr are lost The second casualty was Maj Edward W Tate 141 142 5 December During an Aerospace Defense Command night training mission Convair F 102A 80 CO Delta Dagger 56 1517 of the 157th Fighter Interceptor Squadron South Carolina Air National Guard McEntire Air National Guard Base South Carolina collides with Lockheed C 130E Hercules 64 0558 of the 318th Special Operations Squadron out of Pope AFB North Carolina during a simulated interception over the Bayboro area of Horry County east of Myrtle Beach South Carolina One is killed in the Delta Dagger and all twelve on board the Hercules perish 143 144 Some press reports list Conway South Carolina west of the crash site as the location 1973 Edit22 January Convair F 102A 75 CO Delta Dagger 56 1321 of the 57th FIS crashes into the ocean about 30 km 17 NM from Keflavik Iceland 145 This brought an end to 58 months of accident free flying for the 57th There are no other details regarding this accident at this editing 7 February A US Navy LTV A 7E 8 CV Corsair II BuNo 157539 c n E 195 of VA 195 piloted by Lt Robert Lee Ward 28 one of two on a routine training flight to Sacramento California from NAS Lemoore near Fresno California crashes at 2013 hrs in Alameda after breaking formation at 28 000 feet for unexplained reasons Fighter strikes four story Tahoe Apartments building at 1814 Central Avenue in the city center with fire spreading to other structures killing pilot and ten civilians 26 injured Navy inquiry found evidence of a cockpit fire involving the pilot s oxygen hose and that the in flight blaze was very near Ward s oxygen mask Speculation that smoking could have caused it but no proof Lawsuits for more than 700 000 were filed in connection with the disaster including a 500 000 damage action filed in Alameda County Superior Court by owner of the demolished 36 unit Tahoe Apartments 146 8 March A Douglas EC 47 Skytrain US Army tail number O 50781 built as C 47B 10 DK USAAF 43 49137 c n 14593 26398 to US Navy as R4D 6 BuNo 50781 147 148 149 R4D 6s redesignated C 47J in 1962 carrying members of the US Army Golden Knights parachute team on a recruiting tour crashes and explodes at 0900 hrs in a muddy cornfield on the Basil Perry farm near Silk Hope North Carolina while en route to their first performance of the season at Overland Park Kansas killing 11 team members two flight crew and the crew chief The flight had departed Fort Bragg North Carolina at 0808 hrs Cause was found to be overloading caused by the installation of a heavy metal plate floor installed in Vietnam but not entered in the logbook 150 151 152 8 March Three F 4 Phantom IIs of the Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron collide during a practice session crashing in the desert near El Centro California but all three pilots eject successfully and survive 153 8 March An on ground collision between two tanker jets at Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus Ohio killed two crewmen and injured another seriously The jets two 10 million KC135s used for airborne refueling collided as they both moved into take off positions One plane was loaded with fuel One was extensively damaged by fire the other s interior was burned 153 12 April A U S Navy Lockheed P 3C 125 LO Orion BuNo 157332 c n 185 5547 of VP 47 and a Convair 990 30A 5 N711NA 711 Galileo c n 30 10 1 formerly N5601G of American Airlines belonging to NASA collided while on final approach to NAS Moffett Field in Sunnyvale California and crashed short of the runway The planes fell on the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course and 16 of the 17 people aboard the two planes were killed 154 June 20 An early U S Navy Grumman F 14A Tomcat no 6 flying Mach 0 95 617 kn at 5 000 feet 1 500 m at 0 g shot itself down in the Pacific Missile Test Range near Point Mugu California while testing an AIM 7E 2 Sparrow missile that launched improperly spewing debris into the left engine The plane caught fire and lost control forcing the crew to eject They were rescued safely 155 4 August First of two prototype Boeing YQM 94A Compass Cope B long range remotely piloted vehicles RPV possibly serial 70 1839 crashed during its second test flight The U S Air Force decides not to order the Compass Copes into production Second prototype is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Dayton Ohio 156 22 August RAF McDonnell Douglas Hawker Siddeley F 4M Phantom FGR 2 XV427 X of 17 Squadron RAF Bruggen flies into high ground at Siegen West Germany killing both crew Aircraft had fallen out of a four ship formation during a turn and the pilot attempted to rejoin by cutting a corner but impacted rising terrain 157 19 September A U S Navy Grumman A 6A Intruder BuNo 155721 NJ of VA 128 7 out of NAS Whidbey Island Washington crashes in the Oregon desert 25 miles SE of Christmas Valley Oregon during a low level night training mission The pilot Lt Alan G Koehler 27 and navigator Lt Cdr Philip D duHamel 33 are killed while flying KWF On 14 June 2007 the Bureau of Land Management BLM officially declares the crash scene a historic Federal government site at a Flag Day ceremony An interpretive plaques was unveiled during this event reflecting this designation and depicting the historical significance of the location 158 24 September RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR 1A XV739 V of 1 Squadron crashes at Episkopi Cantonment Cyprus during the climbing transition from hover during a display rehearsal Pilot ejects 157 22 October U S Navy Carrier Air Wing Five suffers six fatalities in night operations this date when Ling Temco Vought A 7A 4b CV Corsair II BuNo 153204 NF 412 of VA 56 159 flown by Lt jg Everett E Goodrow and Grumman EA 6A Prowler BuNo 156980 c n I 449 RM 611 107 of USMC VMCJ 1 Detachment 101 160 crewed by 1st Lts Jot Eve and David L Moody fly into the sea 127 miles 204 km east of Okinawa 11 miles 18 km aft of USS Midway during CVW 5 s initial night qualification period Attempting to undertake a no radio no navigational aids NORDO NONAV approach in bad weather the crew found themselves struggling to find the boat On hearing their radio transmissions Lt jg Goodrow found the EA 6A and had the jet form up on his wing for the approach back to the ship They shot a teardrop pattern directly over the carrier and had turned inbound to the vessel on its course when both simultaneously disappeared from radar screens None of the aircrew attempted to eject and there were no radio transmissions made from either jet It was subsequently assumed that both pilots had flown into the water or collided and then hit the water at about the time they would have slowed to extend their flaps slats and landing gear Subsequently in a search attempt an H 3 Angel Sikorsky SH 3G Sea King BuNo 149893 launches forward of the island contrary to NATOPS standards as there was no point of reference in the dark and at high power flies straight into the water Three of four crewmen Lt jg s William J Bates and George A Wildridge and ADJ1 Richard H Hall are lost 161 162 This was the last USMC EA 6A loss 163 12 November U S Navy Ling Temco Vought A 7A 4c CV Corsair II BuNo 153256 NF of VA 93 assigned to USS Midway crashes into Mount Fuji during a night training flight out of NAF Atsugi killing Lt Richard L Sparky Pierson 164 According to fellow aviator Ens George Zolla of VF 161 Pierson thought he was cleared to a lower altitude than he really was This airframe saw combat in 1968 with VA 82 165 16 November While on reserve station south of Crete a U S Marine Corps Boeing Vertol CH 46 Sea Knight from USS Guadalcanal LPH 7 loses engine power during a routine flight while hovering above the USS Barry The helicopter with crewmen aboard crashes into the destroyer s ASROC deck rolls over the starboard side and almost immediately sinks While no one on Barry was injured only two of the three helicopter crew were rescued by the ship s Motor Whale Boat 10 December RAF English Electric Lightning F 3 XP738 E of 111 Squadron is written off when the undercarriage collapses upon landing at RAF Wattisham Suffolk Stripped for spares and consigned to the dump there 157 1974 Edit23 January An F 4C jet fighter crashes on the Gila Bend Gunnery Range in Gila Bend Arizona killing U S Air Force Maj Jerry D Whitlock and USAF Second Lieut Jerry W Smith 166 24 January Togolese Air Force Douglas C 47 Skytrain 5V MAG crashes during approach near the village of Sarakawa northern Togo killing several high ranking military personnel The President of Togo Gnassingbe Eyadema 1935 2005 is the sole survivor 167 8 February A U S Air Force Boeing B 52G Stratofortress 58 0174 of the 744th BS 456th BW veered off the runway during night take off from Beale AFB California skidded 1 500 feet 460 m through a muddy field before overturning destroyed by four massive explosions and fire One crew member the first pilot was thrown free with severe burns but seven others perished 168 9 February Two U S Air Force Republic F 105 Thunderchiefs of the 457th TFTW TH tailcode Carswell AFB Texas suffer mid air collision downing one aircraft 1 mile 1 6 km from Holliday Texas with the pilot ejecting suffering broken right leg on landing recovered by helicopter Second F 105 recovers to Carswell despite damage pilot uninjured 169 1st Lt Hayes C Kirby in F 105D 10 RE 60 5375 had a violent pitch up and roll in the aircraft and hit his leader in F 105D 10 RE 60 0513 Ejected in a flat spin Leader landed okay 170 9 February A U S Air Force North American T 39A Sabreliner 60 3506 returning to McClellan AFB California collides with a USAF Boeing NKC 135A Stratotanker at 23 000 feet 7 000 m over Peterson Field Colorado killing all seven on board the T 39 The Sabreliner had experienced landing gear trouble rendezvoused with the NKC 135 for a look over accidentally striking the rear fuselage and fin of the Boeing The NKC 135 en route from Seattle Washington to Kirtland AFB New Mexico lands safely 171 172 173 5 March A U S Navy North American RA 5C Vigilante BuNo 149296 174 of RVAH 3 crashes in the Gulf of Mexico 35 miles 56 km W of Tampa Florida after an in flight fire Both crew eject two chutes observed but only the navigator is recovered by a fishing boat 175 5 March A USAF Boeing KC 135A Stratotanker 57 1500 of the 91st Air Refuelling Squadron 384th Air Refuelling Wing crashed and burned shortly after take off from McConnell AFB Kansas killing two of seven crew Air Force spokesmen reported that the aircraft was carrying 136 000 pounds 62 000 kg of fuel when it crashed 3 000 feet 910 m from the main runway after it apparently lost power 176 5 March A U S Air Force Boeing KC 135A Stratotanker of the 7th Air Refuelling Squadron 7th Bomb Wing en route from Eielson AFB Alaska to its homebase at Carswell AFB Texas suffered explosive decompression when a small window blew out at 35 000 feet 11 000 m at 1630 hrs EST about 40 miles 64 km SE of Fort Nelson British Columbia One passenger of the 25 aboard died from the effects of the rapid decompression others and eight crew okay The tanker made an emergency landing at a Canadian Armed Forces Base at Edmonton Alberta 176 177 16 March A U S Navy A 7 Corsair II departs NAS Miramar California for USS Ranger CV 61 with wings folded crashes into a row of houses in a San Diego suburb Lt Robert F Schreiber also reported as Schreiver 29 ejects 164 31 July A U S Navy Grumman TE 2A Hawkeye BuNo 150530 c n 10 7 GE 725 of RVAW 120 based at NAS Norfolk Virginia crashed on take off from CGAS Elizabeth City North Carolina during a touch and go when the port engine s auto feather system failed 178 The pilot lost directional control the aircraft failed to gain altitude and struck a maintenance facility triggering a fire in a fibreglass and upholstery shop Instructor pilot trapped in wreckage three civilians killed student pilot and 12 18 others injured 179 9 August RAF McDonnell Douglas Hawker Siddeley F 4M Phantom FGR 2 XV493 F of No 41 Squadron is involved in fatal mid air collision with a Piper Pawnee crop sprayer G ASVK over Fordham Fen near Downham Market Norfolk England Two Phantom and one Pawnee crew all killed while flying KWF 180 18 August Lockheed C 141A Starlifter 65 0274 of the 437th MAW Charleston AFB South Carolina hits Mount Potosi at the 19 000 foot 5 800 m level 17 miles 27 km from destination John F Kennedy International Airport La Paz Bolivia killing seven crew 181 182 183 184 1 September The Sikorsky S 67 Blackhawk company demonstrator N671SA crashed while attempting to recover from a roll at too low an altitude during its display at the Farnborough Air Show United Kingdom 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