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US Non-Combat Military Aircraft
Accidents in 2000 |
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DATE |
BRANCH |
TYPE |
LOCATION |
DETAILS |
Mar 19 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Texas,
USA |
Crashed Sunday afternoon at an
air show at Kingsville Naval Air Station. The pilot, the only person
aboard, was killed. Maj. Brison Phillips, a member of the F-16 East Coast
Demonstration Team, also known as the Ninth Air Force Demonstration Team,
crashed while performing during an Air Show 2000 at the naval station. No
one and no property on the ground were hit. A
pilot was assigned to the 78th Fighter Squadron. |
Apr 9 |
USMC |
MV-22 |
Arizona,
USA |
Crashes at the Marana Northwest
Regional Airport about 15 miles northwest of Tucson during a training
exercise, killing 19 Marines aboard. The aircraft was in the process of
shifting its propellers from airplane function to helicopter mode when it
went down about 500 yards from a runway. It was one of two Ospreys
simulating the evacuation of civilians from an embassy in a hostile
country. Among victims were four crew members and 15 passengers. Both
planes were stationed at a Marine Corps air base in Yuma, Arizona,
although the troops on board were from around the United States. |
Jun 16 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Arizona, USA |
Crashed in the Arizona desert on
Friday during a training exercise at Luke Air Force Base, but the pilot
ejected safely. $20 million jet crashed at 7:45 a.m. local time south west
of Sells in southern Arizona. The pilot was assigned to 309th Fighter
Squadron. |
Jun 18 |
USN |
F-14 |
Pennsylvania,
USA |
Crashed into a residential area
in Horsham, Pennsylvania, while participating in an air show, killing both
pilots. The crash occurred at 4:43 p.m. EDT. The jet was taking part in an
annual air show at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station, just north of
Philadelphia. The
two men belonged to VF-101 Squadron, based at Naval Air Station Oceania in
Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
Jul 26 |
USN |
F-14 |
Saudi Arabia |
Crashed Wednesday in the Saudi Arabian
desert during a routine training exercise. The pilot and a navy flight
officer ejected to safety from the two-seater F-14 Tomcat. The jet had
taken off from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is operating in the Red Sea. |
Aug 8 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Nevada, USA
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Crashed in the Nevada desert Tuesday about
5 p.m. some 70 miles north of Nellis Air Force Base, after apparently
clipping another jet during a training exercise. The pilot ejected and was
not injured. His plane crashed into a dry lake bed 125 miles north of Las
Vegas. Another F-16 landed a short time later with minor damage, leading
investigators to speculate the planes struck each other in midair.
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Aug 10 |
USN |
MH-53E |
Gulf of Mexico |
Two
crewmembers were injured and four others were killed on Thursday after a
USN helicopter carrying six people crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the
Texas coast. The MH-53E mine-sweeping helicopter was on a routine training
mission when it went down about 15 miles off the coast southeast of Corpus
Christi. The dead crew members were identified as the pilot, Lt. Shawn O.
Jacobs, 30, of Jefferson City, Mo.; co-pilot Lt. Edward R. Fassnacht, 31,
of Akron, Ohio; and petty officers Jeffrey S. Paschal, 40, of Phoenix, and
David E. Rutherford, 27, of Masontown, Pa. Fassnacht's and Rutherford's
bodies were found Friday. The Sea Dragon was hovering about 17 miles off
shore on a minesweeping training mission when it reported a mechanical
malfunction and then plummeted into the water. The aircraft and crew
members belonged to HM-15
mine countermeasures squadron based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. |
Aug 28 |
USAF Reserve
Command |
F-16C |
Texas,
USA |
An
Air Force Reserve Command pilot was killed when the single-seat F-16C
Fighting Falcon he was flying crashed at about 6 p.m. CDT Aug. 28 near
Tulia, Texas. Maj. Stephen W. Simons, 41, was assigned to the 301st
Fighter Wing's 457th Fighter Squadron at Naval Air Station Fort Worth
Joint Reserve Base, Carswell Field, Texas. Simons was returning to NAS
Fort Worth from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, when the accident occurred. The
aircraft was carrying an inert AIM-9M training missile, but no live
munitions or bombs. |
Aug 31 |
USAF |
T-6 Texan II |
Texas,
USA |
A
T-6 Texan II, assigned to the 12th Flying Training Wing, crashed just
south of San Antonio at approximately 4:50 p.m. Aug 31.
The aircrew was on an aircraft familiarization flight and
conducting instrument procedures at the time of the accident. The two crew
members, Major Todd A. Black and Lieutenant Colonel Michael B. McGinty,
ejected safely from the aircraft. There
were no civilian injuries or damage to structures on the ground. |
Sep 6 |
USAF |
T-37 |
Oklahoma,
USA |
A
student pilot was killed when an Air Force T-37 crashed one mile short of
the runway at Vance Air Force Base, Okla. The
pilot was performing a training mission at the time of the accident and
the cause of the crash is not known at this time. Vance AFB, home of the
71st Flying Training Wing, trains pilots for the Air Force, Navy, Marines,
Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve and for allied countries. |
Sep
11 |
USMC |
F/A-18D |
Arizona,
USA |
Collided
with another Hornet in the skies near Yuma, Arizona, on the Barry M.
Goldwater Range, killing both pilots aboard. Killed in the crash were
Capt. Bret O. Hines, the pilot, and Maj. Nicholas Ferencz III, the weapons
systems officer. The other Hornet landed safely with relatively minor
damage, according to a statement distributed by Marine Corps headquarters
in the Pentagon. Neither the pilot nor the weapons systems officer was
injured. The Hornet that crashed was from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron
242 base at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California. |
Sep
14 |
USAF |
RQ-1L |
Nevada,
USA |
Crashed near Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, Nev.
on Sept. 14.The Predator, from the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron based at
Indian Springs, was destroyed in the accident. There were no injuries or
significant property damage as a result of the crash. According to the Air
Combat Command's Accident Investigation Report the crash occurred due to a
loss of communication with the ground control station. |
Sep 29 |
USN |
F/A-18C |
Persian
Gulf |
The
pilot was killed when his single-seat U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed into
the Persian Gulf shortly after takeoff from the USS Abraham Lincoln. The pilot of
the F/A-18C Hornet strike fighter lost communication with the aircraft
carrier soon after taking off Friday for a routine test on carrier
landings. The aircraft carrier's home port is Everett, Wash. It arrived on
station in the Gulf on Sept. 24. The single-seat fighter jet was assigned
to Carrier Air Wing 14. |
Oct 5 |
USMC |
F/A-18C |
Arizona,
USA |
The
single-seat fighter crashed on the Barry Goldwater training range at Yuma
during a training session with other F/A-18s. The pilot, Capt. Les P.
Verdon, was treated for minor cuts and bruises and released from the Yuma
Regional Medical Center, according to a Marine Corps statement. The
aircraft is from Marine Air Squadron 251 at Beaufort, S.C., and was
temporarily assigned to Yuma. |
Oct 20 |
USN |
F/A-18C |
Pacific
Ocean |
A
Navy fighter plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff
from an aircraft carrier, and the pilot was presumed dead. The single-seat
F/A-18C Hornet went down about 95 miles southwest of San Diego at 7:20
p.m. Friday, the Navy said in a news release Saturday. The jet had taken
off from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, which was coordinating
routine flight operations off the California coast. |
Oct 27 |
USN |
F/A-18 |
Nevada,
USA |
Two
Navy jets collided during a training mission, forcing one pilot to eject
and parachute to the ground. Both pilots escaped serious injury. The two
F/A-18 Hornets hit Friday night over the desert about 115 miles east of
Reno and 55 miles east of Fallon Naval Air Station. One
plane crashed after its pilot, Lt. Cam Hansen, ejected. The other pilot,
Lt. Joe Krasinski, was able to land even though three feet off his
aircraft's right wing had been sheared off and the plane's fuselage,
vertical stabilizers and horizontal flaps were damaged. Both pilots are
assigned to units at the Oceana, Va., Naval Air Station but are at Fallon
as part of regular training. |
Nov 12 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Sea
of Japan |
One
American pilot was rescued and another missing after two U.S. F-16 fighter
jets collided in mid-air over the Sea of Japan on Monday. The collision
took place during joint military exercises between Japan and the United
States which began on November 2, their first exercises in line with the
adoption of new security arrangements last year. One pilot, Col. Michael
Lepper, ejected safely from his aircraft. The second pilot, Capt. Warren
Sneed, after a two-day search, was deemed lost at sea and declared dead. |
F-16 |
Nov 16 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Florida,
USA |
An
Air Force F-16 collided with a small plane Thursday and crashed in flames
near Sarasota, Florida. One person aboard the small plane was killed,
while the fighter pilot parachuted to safety. Pieces of the small plane, a
Cessna, landed on the golf course, while the
wreckage of the fighter jet started a fire in the woods a few miles away.
The Air Force said the jet was from Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Ga.,
but was on a training mission that originated from Florida's MacDill Air
Force Base, about 20 miles from the crash site. |
Dec 11 |
USMC |
MV-22 |
North
Carolina, USA |
A
Marine Corps Osprey aircraft on a night-training mission crashed in a
densely wooded area on Monday night in North Carolina. All four crew
members aboard were killed. The aircraft belongs to the Marine Medium
Tiltrotor Training Squadron 204 based at New River. |
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