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US Non-Combat Military Aircraft
Accidents in 2001 |
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DATE |
BRANCH |
TYPE |
LOCATION |
DETAILS |
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Jan 12 |
USAF |
A-10 |
Republic
of Korea |
A
USAF pilot from Osan AB, Republic of Korea, successfully ejected from an
Air Force A-10 aircraft at 2:13 p.m. Jan. 12 while on a training mission.
Col. John Lauten, 51st Fighter Wing vice commander, was treated and
released from the Osan Air Base Hospital. He suffered only minor injuries.
The plane crashed about one mile
east of the Osan airfield. No other injuries were reported.
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Jan 16 |
US
Army |
UH-60 |
California,
USA |
A
Blackhawk helicopter crashed while hoisting a Humvee during nighttime
training in the Mojave Desert, injuring five soldiers. The UH-60 Blackhawk
and the Humvee were destroyed in the accident Tuesday at Bicycle Lake Army
Airfield, 110 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The soldiers, who were from
Fort Hood, Texas, suffered broken bones and cuts. |
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Feb 3 |
USMC |
AV-8 |
North
Carolina, USA |
A
Marine Corps Harrier jet crashed Saturday as it neared touchdown on a base
runway at Cherry Point station, NC. The two crew members were killed. The
jump-jet crashed while approaching the runway about 4 p.m. The Cherry
Point station is home to one Harrier training squadron and three squadrons
that are deployed on missions accompanying Marines from nearby Camp
Lejeune. |
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Feb 13 |
US
Army |
UH-60 |
Hawaii,
USA |
Six
soldiers died and nine were injured after two U.S. Army helicopters
crashed during an exercise on the north shore of Hawaii's Oahu island on
Monday night. There had been 17 soldiers on the two UH-60 Black Hawk
helicopters. They were participating in the annual Lightning Thrust
Warrior exercises of the Army's 25th Infantry Division, a light aviation
brigade. The exercise involved 30 helicopters ferrying nearly 1,000
soldiers from Wheeler Army Airfield to a base in Kahuku. It began on Feb.
5 and was scheduled to end on Friday. |
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UH-60 |
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Mar 3 |
National
Guard |
C-23 |
Georgia,
USA |
A plane carrying
members of a National Guard engineering crew on a training mission crashes
and bursts into flames in
a field near Unadilla, Ga., killing all 21 people on board. Among
victims were three
Florida guardsmen and 18 members of the Virginia National Guard, who were
passengers on the plane. |
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Mar 21 |
USAF |
F-16 |
New
Mexico, USA |
The
pilot of an F-16 fighter ejected safely before the jet crashed near a
bombing range Wednesday morning. Capt. Dawn Hokaj, who is assigned to the
base's 522nd Fighter Squadron, told investigators the jet's single engine
failed during the routine training flight. She was treated for minor
injuries. The jet, an F-16 assigned to the 27th Fighter Wing, crashed near
the Melrose Bombing Range, about 20 miles west of Cannon, a base news
release said. |
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Mar 26 |
US
Army |
RC-12 |
Germany |
An Army
reconnaissance plane crashed Monday in Germany, killing two people on
board. The plane crashed in a forest near the town of Schwabach, about
eight miles southwest of Nuremberg. The RC-12 was on a training flight
from an Army airfield at Wiesbaden. It was assigned to the 205th Military
Intelligence Brigade at Wiesbaden. The accident happened about 4 p.m.
local time. There was no indication of what caused the crash. |
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Mar 26 |
USAF |
F-15 |
United
Kingdom |
The
aircraft, each with one pilot on board, disappeared 45 minutes after
taking off Monday from Lakenheath air base, 75 miles northeast of London.
The U.S. Air Force at Lakenheath identified the missing men as Lt. Col.
Kenneth Hyvonen and Capt. Kirk Jones. F-15 wreckage and one body were
spotted Tuesday near the summit of 4,296-foot Ben Macdhui, the tallest
peak in the Cairngorms. |
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F-15 |
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Apr 2 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Japan |
First
Lt. Mark Hadley ejected safely as his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed into
the sea off northern Japan April 2. Hadley, who is assigned to the 13th
Fighter Squadron here, and his aircraft were a part of an air-to-ground
combat training exercise at Ripsaw Range here at the time of the crash.
The fighter plunged into the sea about 12 miles northeast of the base. A
Japanese navy helicopter rescued Hadley about 30 minutes after the crash. |
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Jun |
USAF |
F-16 |
Republic
of Korea |
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Jul 6 |
USAF |
F-16 |
South
Carolina, USA |
Air Force
investigators have determined that G-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC)
led to the July 6 crash of an F-16CJ off the coast of South Carolina. The
pilot, Capt. Mitchell A Bulmann, sustained fatal injuries while ejecting
from the aircraft. The aircraft was assigned to the 77th Fighter Squadron at
Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. and was on a training mission at the time of the
accident. |
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Jul 9 |
USMC |
CH-46 |
North
Carolina, USA |
A Marine Corps
helicopter crashed into a river during a mock nighttime ship landing,
killing three Marines and injuring two. The CH-46 Sea Knight went down in
the New River near Camp Lejeune Marine about 11 p.m. Monday. The pilot and
co-pilot were hospitalized in stable condition. The bodies of three crew
members were pulled from the river by divers early Tuesday. The CH-46 was
one of two helicopters practicing a night ship landing. |
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Jul 17 |
USAF |
F-16 |
California,
USA |
An Air Force F-16
chase plane on a photography mission crashed Tuesday in a remote
mountainous area, killing both men on board. It went down about 7 a.m.
some 30 miles east of the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center, in an area
capped with volcanic peaks. Killed were Maj. Aaron George, a pilot with
the 416th Flight Test Squadron, and Judson Brohmer, an aerial
photographer. |
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Jul 18 |
USAF |
F-16 |
Turkey |
A U.S. F-16 fighter
jet heading for a patrol over northern Iraq crashed in Turkey on Wednesday
after apparently suffering engine problems, the first U.S. warplane to go
down in more than 200,000 flights over the no-fly zones. The pilot, Lt.
Michael A. Nelson, Jr., parachuted from the airplane safely and was in
good health at Incirlik air base in Turkey. The F-16 went down near the
town of Diyarbakir, 60 miles from the Iraqi border, and U.S. officials
said there was no hostile fire directed at it. The F-16 that crashed
Wednesday was part of the 510th Fighter Squadron based in Aviano air base
in Italy. |
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Jul 26 |
National
Guard |
F-16 |
Illinois,
USA |
An Indiana Air
National Guard F-16 out of Terre Haute crashed in a field in southern
Illinois Thursday while training with two other fighter jets. The pilot,
whose name was not released, ejected safely, and no casualties were
reported on the ground. The crash occurred at about 2:40 p.m. in a rural
area near Parkersburg, Ill. |
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Aug 8 |
USN |
F-14 |
Indian
Ocean |
Two aviators were
missing since Wednesday night when their F-14 failed to return to the San
Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Constellation while in the Indian Ocean.
The aircraft was on a routine training mission, according to the Navy. The
jet was returning to the ship when radar and radio contact was lost.
Officer Lt. Richard Stephen Pugh, 30, from Temecula, Calif. and Lt. Cmdr.
Robert Wayne Sides, 39, of Scottsdale, Ariz. have been declared deceased.
Both were assigned to Fighter Squadron 2, based at NAS Oceana in Virginia
Beach. |
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