Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force lost 15 men during the alert: four in the crash of an RB-47 reconnaissance plane at Florida...
MacDill Air Force Base; four in an RB-47 crash at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda; six in the crack-up of a C-135 transport at Guantanamo, and U-2 Pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, who was shot down by antiaircraft fire while on a photo-reconnaissance flight-one of more than 2,000 sorties over Cuba...
...Human Element. The Idlewild crash was the seventh in a week, and it caused an increase in the already considerable amount of talk and argument about air safety...
...circling to lose altitude for landing, blinked its landing lights in a traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable record of 25 years' service without a fatal accident. The pilot had taken his plane three miles too far to the east during his circling maneuver, and the crash had been inevitable. Whether it was his own error or that of faulty navigation equipment...
...swans, headed south from the Arctic to Chesapeake Bay wintering grounds, apparently struck the stabilizer of the United Viscount "like soft cannonballs," said a CAB crash investigator. Weakened by the impact, the tail shuddered and tore away, and the plane fell out of control...