A3D-1 crash on., 135417, 'AB 7', of Heavy Attack Squadron crashes on the deck of the aircraft carrier during in the Norwegian Sea. It was a day landing, second approach, CCA (first approach mode one without); 1.6 km visibility, low, ragged ceiling, intermittent rain showers.
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After a low approach the aircraft settled at the ramp and the mainmounts and fuselage struck the ramp. The aircraft continued up deck in flames crashing off angle. Parts of the plane struck a parked. Only two helmets and one boot were later recovered. It was estimated that one possible contributing factor was that the rain caused the optical illusion of 'high ball' (on the landing mirror), and low airspeed.
The crew died: CDR Paul Wilson (71 total carrier landings); LTJS Joseph R. Juricic 8/N; and ADC Percy Schafer, third crew member. As a high altitude bomber, the A3D was not equipped with ejection seats.
1 October Aborted takeoff at, Florida, causes write-off of, 51-2317, of the. Gear collapses, aircraft burns, but base fire department is able to quench flames such that crew escapes – pilots blow canopy to get out, navigator egresses through his escape hatch. 2 October A, BuNo 126403 of, suffers flight control problems during carrier qualifications on off southeast coast of. Commanders order pilot Lt. Howard Cooper to return to naval air station, 30 mi (48 km) north for repairs, but Cooper flies out to sea and runs out of fuel; a second Banshee pilot had determined the errant aircraft's approximate heading by tracking Cooper's radio signals, but the missing aircraft and pilot are not found after 4 days of intensive searching. On 2 June 1964, Canadian Barbara Dawn snags a wrecked jet in her nets 70 mi (113 km) southwest of; fishermen briefly observe entire aircraft before forward half breaks off and sinks, tail section is recovered, and RCN investigators are able to identify wreckage as 126403 based on serial-numbered parts. 9 October, 51-2177A, of the, taking part in a practice demonstration at suffers wing-failure during the annual Strategic Air Command Bombing Navigation and Reconnaissance Competition.
The aircraft comes down north of downtown killing pilot Colonel, commander of the 321st Bombardment Wing, Group Captain John Woodroffe of the, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Joyce, and Major Vernon Stuff. Pinecastle AFB is renamed McCoy Air Force Base in McCoy's honor on 7 May 1958. Details of the accident remained classified for five decades, presumably because they would reveal flaws in the aircraft, but an FOIA request resulted in the release that showed that the investigation laid the blame on pilot McCoy. 11 October On takeoff shortly after 0000 hrs.
From, Florida, a, 51-2139, c/n 450192, of the, participating in exercise Dark Night, suffers port-rear wheel casing failure at 30 kts. The bomber's tail hits the runway and a fuel tank ruptures, crashing in an uninhabited area approximately 3,800 feet from the end of the runway, four crew KWF. The aircraft burns for seven hours after the firecrew evacuates the area, ten minutes after the crash. The aircraft was carrying an unarmed nuclear weapon in the bomb bay and fuel capsule in a carrying case in the cabin. 'Two low order detonations occurred during the burning.'
The nuclear capsule and its carrying case were recovered intact and only slightly damaged by heat. Approximately one-half of the weapon remained. All major components were damaged but were identifiable and accounted for. 29 October, 52-2711, c/n 16742, of the, out of, New Mexico, crashes 35 miles north of, while on nine-hour low-level survey flight to determine minimum altitude restrictions for training routes. Aircraft was seen over, at altitude of 60 feet shortly after 0830 hrs., and then heard striking a cloud-shrouded cliff face, killing 16 crew and strewing wreckage for 200 yards along mountainside. 9 November A, 51-5745, of the, is destroyed by an explosion and groundfire at, all crew members survive.
This is the 32nd B-36 written-off in an accident of 385 built and will be the last operational loss before the type is retired. 15 November, 44-70039, c/n 10871, of the 5040th Radar Evaluation Flight, 5040th Consolidation Maintenance Group, crashed 39 miles (63 km) SE of, Alaska at 1822 hrs.
Mission departed Elmendorf on a ground radar calibration mission at 0954 under instrument flight rules on flight path to the Aircraft Control and Warning radar stations at near and then, N of. Flight covered 1,800 nmi (3,300 km). With ten hours in the air.
Had fourteen hours' fuel and a crew of eight plus an instructor pilot. On final leg of approach to, bomber came down on glacier now known as 'Bomber Glacier', three crew with major injuries and one with a minor injury later upgraded to major, others KWF. Due to remoteness of crashsite, wreckage is still there. 28 November Second of three flying prototypes of the ultra long-range, high-altitude single-seat super interceptor, is written off in landing crash, in part due to the restricted view from the cockpit over the very long nose.
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Third prototype will have its nose dropped by six degrees to improve visibility. 28 November, 56-6704, Article 371, eleventh airframe of first USAF order, delivered April 1957, moved to, Texas, June: 1957, crashes at night this date. Benny Lacombe killed when he unsuccessfully attempts to bail out of crippled aircraft 13 miles SE of Laughlin. Ejection seats had not yet been fitted to U-2s at this point.
6 December The first launch attempt of the first all-up rocket, developed by the, from, Florida, fails as the vehicle reaches an apogee of four feet (1.2 meters), then suffers a loss of thrust, fails back onto the pad, the fuel tanks rupture and explode, destroying the rocket and severely damaging the launchpad. The 1.36 kilogram satellite is thrown clear, landing near the pad, whereupon it begins transmitting a signal.
No exact cause for the failure is determined, but the commonly accepted explanation is that low pressure during the start procedure allowed some of the burning fuel in the to leak into the fuel system through the head before full propellant pressure was obtained from the. The press dubs the failed attempt 'Kaputnik'. The satellite is now on display at the, Washington, D.C. 12 December A, 56-0597 of the, crashes at either 1602 hrs. PDT or 1700 hrs. On takeoff at near, Washington. All crew members are killed except the tail gunner.
The incident is caused by trim motors that were hooked up backwards. The aircraft climbed straight up, stalled, fell over backwards and nosed straight down. Among the dead crewmen was the commanding officer of the 92d Bomb Wing to which the aircraft was assigned, Col. Clarence Arthur Neely, 42, of, Illinois. The tail section broke away in the crash and the gunner, T/Sgt. Graye, 25, Kansas, survived a low-level ejection, relatively unscathed.
All eight others on board perished, although four attempted ejection. Wreckage was strewn over a radius of more than 1,000 feet (300 m) in a stubble field about a mile west of the airbase. One source states that the crash site was 'in a field between the runway (05) and the hospital'. Although the Air Force has never indicated whether or not nuclear weapons were aboard the aircraft, this crash was cited in a February 1991 EPA report as having involved nuclear materials This was the seventh B-52 to be lost, and the first that was not serving with a training wing. Also KWF were: Maj. Ralph Romaine Alworth, 38, Oklahoma; Capt.
Douglas Earl Gray, 33, Kentucky; 1st Lt. James Dennis Mann, 33, California; Capt. Peebles, 33, Virginia; Capt. Douglas Franklin Schwartz, 37, Minnesota; Capt. Herbert Henry Spiller, Jr., 32, Arkansas; and 1st Lt. Jack Joseph Vainisi, 26, of, Illinois.
1958 6 January A U.S. Navy, BuNo 124373, of JQ-3, JQ tailcode, with 12 aboard, loses power in its port reciprocating engine while on final approach to, Virginia, comes down at 22nd Bay Street and East Ocean View Avenue in, 'demolishing three small houses and damaging three others. The plane and the last house it struck burned. Four of the airmen were unaccounted for. The eight survivors, of whom only one was seriously injured, were hospitalized.
All were suffering from shock. Three civilians – occupants of three of the houses that were struck – were injured, none critically,' stated the Associated Press. The aircraft was on a ferry flight from its base at, via, to NAS Norfolk, and had entered the landing pattern when the port engine failed, the pilot, Cmdr.
Clyde Curley, 41, reported to Navy officials. 14 January A U.S. Navy, BuNo 128437, c/n 1049B-4104, of VW-11, Newfoundland, practicing instrument landings at, Maryland, is waved off during an 0830 hrs. Approach in what the Associated Press terms 'murky weather', crashes into a wooded area and explodes, killing all nine aboard. The pilot 'had tried to land once before but was waved off because his approach to the end of the runway was too low. Visibility was reduced to about a half mile by fog and mist.
On the second run, the plane also came in too low and to the left. The tower again waved it off. The pilot gunned his ship as it started over the 'Cinder Block,' the station's name for a housing area for married enlisted personnel. Howard Snyder, in one of the one-story, two family buildings, said, 'I looked out the window and all I saw was wings.' The plane cleared the housing area, but clipped treetops as the engines roared.
The impact with the trees threw the plane out of control, and it seared a strip through the thin woods a quarter-mile long. Then it struck the ground and erupted into a huge ball of fire.
Eight bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage by the exploding gasoline. A ninth was pulled out of the mangled cockpit section while it still smouldered. Of the nine killed, three were officers and six were seamen. A Patuxent spokesman said Cdr. Lamer, Jr., of, S. C., was the plane commander, while Cdr.
Hart of, La., and Lt. (j.g.) Harry G. Morgan, Jr., of N.J., were pilots in training.
The spokesman said it was not known which man was at the controls at the time of the crash.' Victims included: Cmdr. Lamar, Jr., husband of Mrs. Lamar, now living at Patuxent, and son of Capt.
Lamar, Charleston, S.C. Hart, husband of Mrs. Hart, now living at Patuxent, and son of Simon M. Hart, Natchitoches, La. Seaman Floyd O. Taylor, husband of Mrs. Kathleen Henrickson Taylor, Md., and son of Mrs.
Velma Dowdy,. Seaman William C. Thurau, husband of Mrs. Mary Lee Seward Thurau, Va., and son of Mrs. Thurau, Mich. 15 January A U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance plane, 49–295, c/n 16071, (built as a B-50D-115-BO Superfortress), of the, stationed on, with ten crew on board (some sources incorrectly state that there were nine crew), vanishes as it penetrates the eye of.
The bomber was last heard from as it headed towards the typhoon, 600 miles N of Guam. Rescue efforts continued on 18 January after reports of flares, faint radio signals, and mirror flashes. The ammunition ship reported sighting flares in the search area. 'The navy destroyer escort and an air rescue squadron plane both reported hearing a radio distress call, possibly from a hand-operated radio such as those carried by the missing craft. In a Navy officer told of seeing a series of flashes on the water yesterday. He was a passenger on a plane 200 miles west of Guam. Howard said he thought they were mirror flashes but did not report them at the time because he hadn't known the plane was down.'
No additional evidence of the WB-50 was reported during the following week, when a disappeared SW of on a flight to on 19 January, adding to the search complexities for those seeking evidence of the missing weather plane. The search for survivors of the C-97 is abandoned on Wednesday night, 22 January, when a half-ton of aircraft debris is returned to, much of it damaged by fire. However, the Navy continued to search for survivors of the lost WB-50 after faint radio signals of a type that could have come from a hand-cranked radio on a raft were again heard on 22 January.