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    On July 28, 2010, a C-17 Globemaster III transport plane of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, while practicing...
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    July 2010, a USAF C-17 (AF Serial No. 00-0173 – "Spirit of the Aleutians") crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, while practicing for the 2010 Arctic...
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    Iraqi fighter aircraft in far western Iraq.[citation needed] 2010 Alaska USAF C-17 crash, a 2010 accident that also took place at Elmendorf AFB, crashing...
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  • Thumbnail for 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash
    On Friday, 24 June 1994, a United States Air Force (USAF) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, United States, after...
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    1965: En route to Tuy Hoa Air Base, a USAF C-123 hit some trees on top of a ridge, causing it to enter a spin and crash. Four American officers and 81 South...
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    Company in Long Beach, California. The C-124 was the primary heavy-lift transport for United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS)...
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    "Boxcars." The USAF Strategic Air Command had C-119 Flying Boxcars in service from 1955 to 1973. Perhaps the most remarkable use of the C-119 was the aerial...
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    Machine US Air Force, 13 June 2006. "USAF Crash Investigation Video." YouTube. "Air Force blames crew for C-5 crash" DelawareOnline, 14 June 2006. "Pilot...
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  • Thumbnail for 1975 Tân Sơn Nhứt C-5 accident
    On 4 April 1975, a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy participating in the first mission of Operation Babylift crashed on approach during an emergency landing at Tan...
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  • Thumbnail for Elmendorf Air Force Base
    ICAO: PAED, FAA LID: EDF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) facility in Anchorage, Alaska. Originally known as Elmendorf Field, it became Elmendorf...
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    FWW, USAF, crashed Nellis AFB, both crew killed. 8 February 1978: F-15A, 73-0087, of the 555th TFTS, 58th TFTW, USAF, lost in a ground incident. 17 April...
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    Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson (category 2010 establishments in Alaska)
    the USAF had erred in blaming Haney, and that facts did not sufficiently support conclusions; the USAF stated that it stood by the ruling. Alaska portal...
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  • Thumbnail for 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
    accident (/ˈtuːli/; Danish: Thuleulykken), involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland...
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    Air Force. The C-133 was the USAF's only production turboprop-powered strategic airlifter, entering service shortly after the Lockheed C-130 Hercules,...
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  • 84-0875 of the USAF (15th Special Operations Squadron) crashed at Sardeh Band Airport near Band E Sardeh Dam in Afghanistan. June 17, 2002: C-130A N130HP...
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    on board. 7 December 1975 USAF KC-135A, 60-0354, from Plattsburgh AFB, New York, crashed after takeoff at Eielson AFB, Alaska, killing all four crewmembers...
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    were rescued by a USAF Grumman HU-16 Albatross Air-Sea Rescue plane. On 17 November 1955, United States Air Force C-54 Flight 9068 crashed into the south...
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    2007. Retrieved: 24 September 2010. Warwick, Graham (14 November 2007). "F-15 operators follow USAF grounding after crash". Flight International. Archived...
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  • investigated. This was apparently the first C-17 accident to result in the loss of life. The crash damaged tracks of the Alaska Railroad, which temporarily suspended...
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    engined amphibious flying boat that was used by the United States Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Navy (USN), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), and the Royal Canadian...
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    15 March 1981, USAF RC-135S, 61-2664, called "Cobra Ball", crashed on final approach in bad weather to Shemya Air Force Base, Alaska on a flight from...
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    second jump-qualified Air Force pilot. In late 1947, the crash of the B-29 "Clobbered Turkey" in Alaska brought home the need for specialized, well-trained...
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    additional high-altitude objects near the coast of Alaska on 10 February and over Yukon on 11 February. The USAF expects to begin retiring the F-22 in the 2030s...
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  • Bournemouth bomber crash pilot Denis Evans in justice call". BBC News. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2023. "Accident-Report.com – USAAF/USAF Accidents...
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    after 68 aircraft had been built. In the mid-1960s, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) was seeking an aircraft to replace its piston-engined Lockheed EC-121 Warning...
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    52-8683 USAF, c/n B.45, c/r N57968". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 21 October 2016. "Airframe Dossier – PiaseckiH-21, s/n 53-4329 USAF, c/r N6794"...
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  • October 1935 Prototype Boeing Model 299, NX13372, 'X13372', c/n 1963, the future B-17, crashes on take-off from Wright Field, Ohio, due to locked control...
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    of the other C-23Bs. In 1994, another eight aircraft were converted to replace the de Havilland Canada UV-18 Twin Otters used in Alaska. (which was also...
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    Field, killing its pilot. Six months later on September 14, 1961, a USAF F-106 crashed on approach to Geiger Field, killing its pilot. On February 18, 1972...
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  • Hogan) dies in the crash; the other three crewmembers survive. 17 August A PAF Lockheed C-130B Hercules, 23494, 'R' (ex-USAF 62-3494), c/n 3708, callsign...
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