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

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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.

Aircraft terminology

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

10 January
Developmental prototype
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
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
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
MacDill AFB, Florida.[9]
18 April
USMC Major General
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
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
Petaluma, crashes and burns, killing 13 of those on board.[12][13]
6 May
USAF
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
Korat RTAFB, Thailand, after a refuelling resulted in a subsonic high-speed stall. Pilot Lawson and RSO Martinez eject safely.[16]
11 May
An
Lubbock International Airport are destroyed, amongst 100 aircraft damaged.[17]
12 May
Squadron Leader K. L. Narayan is lost with aircraft.[1]
22 May
A U.S. Air Force
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
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
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
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
Charleston AFB, South Carolina for the 437th MAW.[21]
11 June
A U.S. Navy
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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bricktown, New Jersey, and Navy Airman Apprentice Gary B. Warner, 19, of Central Bridge, New York.[42]
16 November
A
NAS Oceana at Virginia Beach.[44]
24 November
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
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
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

7 January
Main article: 1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash
An unarmed U.S. Air Force
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
Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska, is said to be from this accident.[51]
21 January
An
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
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
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
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
UCLA, was killed aboard the DC-9.[68][69][70][71]
13 June
A USAF
Palmyra Island. Twelve military personnel and twelve civilians are lost. Only small bits of wreckage found.[72][73]
15 June
Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base.[75]
30 June
The crew of
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
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
Eglin AFB
, Florida in 1983–1984, but no orders were ever placed.
27 July
Wing Commander J. K. Mohlah, crashes just after takeoff at Bangalore, pilot KWF.[1]
30 July
At ~1400 hrs., a
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
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
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
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
MCAS Iwakuni, and all surveillance craft were pulled back five miles.[92][93]
29 September
A U.S. Air Force
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
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
MCAS Iwakuni in good condition.[100]
29 October
A U.S. Air Force
Okinawa, both crew ejecting before the airframe impacted in a sugar cane field; one seriously injured, one with minor injuries.[101]
November
Two ex-
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
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
314th Tactical Airlift Wing, crashed due to fin stall on take-off from Little Rock Air Force Base
, Arkansas.
15 November
A
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
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
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

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
Little Rock, Arkansas
; four persons on the Hercules are killed. The two Tweet pilots eject safely.
14 March
Two USAF
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eglin AFB, Florida, shortly after takeoff. Lost control after an external fuel fire and explosion. Unsuccessful ejection, crew killed.[131]
20 July
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
Nansemond (Suffolk, Virginia
), off Glen Haven Drive. The crew are killed.
13 October
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
NAFEC Atlantic City, New Jersey.[137]
19 October
A USAF
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
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
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

22 January
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
VA-82.[165]
16 November
While on reserve station south of
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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