This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office or the Air Safety Network or the Dutch Scramble Website Brush and Dustpan Database. Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.
See also: List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (pre-1950)See also: List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1974)See also: List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (2000–present)Aircraft terminology
Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.
1975
- 22 March - Hellenic Air Force Ling-Temco-Vought A-7H Corsair II, BuNo 159676 , crashes near Souda, Greece, the first reported A-7H crash.
- 24 March - A Royal Air Force Handley Page Victor K1A, XH618 , of 57 Squadron collided with a RAF Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer XV156 during a simulated refuelling. Buccaneer hit the Victor's tailplane causing the aircraft to crash into the sea 95 miles E of Sunderland, County Durham.
- 4 April – A USAF C-5A Galaxy, 68-0218 , c/n 500-0021, taking part in Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, experiences an explosive decompression about 40 mi (64 km) outside Saigon when the rear ramp and pressure door blow out, damaging the plane's flight controls. The plane, carrying over 300 crew, troops, children, and adult escorts, crashes into a rice paddy after the pilot loses control while trying to return to Tan Son Nhut Air Base; 138 die, including 127 orphans.
- May - Two Vietnam People's Air Force MiG-19s suffer mid-air collision over Noi Bai airfield, North Vietnam, during practice for air display to celebrate the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War. Both pilots killed while flying (KWF).
- 26 August - A Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D-12-CV Corsair II, 72-0172 , of the 23rd TFW, 76th TFS, crashes on an Eglin AFB, Florida, test range during night training mission. Pilot killed.
- 3 September - A USAF B-52G-85-BW Stratofortress, 57-6493 , of the 68th Bomb Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, crashed near Aiken, South Carolina when the aircraft suffered major structural failure due to a major fuel leak with the right wing separating between the third and fourth engine nacelles, the wing then shearing off the horizontal stabilizer. The bomber rolled inverted and broke apart. Four crewmembers successfully ejected, three KWF.
- 14 October – An RAF Avro Vulcan B.2, XM645 , of 9 Sqn RAF Waddington breaks up over Zabbar, Malta, after a hard landing shears off the port-side undercarriage, piercing a wing fuel tank and starting a fire. The pilot and co-pilot initiate a second landing attempt but eject when they realize that the plane cannot make it back to the runway. The subsequent explosion kills 5 crew members who remained aboard, and an electrical cable severed by falling debris kills a bystander on the ground.
- 14 October - A USAF F-15A-7-MC Eagle, 73-0088 , c/n 0027/A022, of the 555th TFTS, 58th TFTW, crashes W of Minersville, Utah, due to electrical smoke/fire from generator failure; pilot ejects safely. This was the first F-15 crash.
- 19 November - First of three Boeing-Vertol YUH-61s completed, 73-21656 , crashes and is moderately damaged during testing, but two company pilots escape injury. Cause is found to be failure of tail rotor drive shaft after the main rotor oversped during an auto-rotational recovery. Airframe is repaired. Now preserved at the Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Alabama. Type loses competition to Sikorsky UH-60 and airframes four and five are not completed.
- 25 November - Israeli Defense Force/Air Force C-130H 203/4X-FBO , c/n 4533, crashed into mountain Jebel Halal, 55 kilometers south-southeast of El Arish, Israel. Pilots were Shaul Bustan and Uri Manor.
- December - Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II, 67-14586 , c/n D.005, while assigned to Eglin AFB, Florida's 3246th Test Wing, Air Development & Test Center for mission support, suffers engine failure on take-off from Tallahassee Municipal Airport, Florida and makes forced landing, coming down largely intact. Airframe is hauled back to Eglin AFB on a truck, where it is either scrapped or becomes a target hulk.
1976
- 30 January - A Convair PQM-102 Delta Dagger, belonging to the Fairchild Corporation according to a press report, crashed on landing at Bob Sikes Airport, Crestview, Florida when the landing gear collapsed. Airframe destroyed by fire. Sperry Flight Systems pilot, Earl C. Pearce, was unhurt.
- 25 October - Lockheed SR-71A, 61-7965 , Item 2016, lost near Lovelock, Nevada during night training sortie following INS platform failure. Pilot St. Martin and RSO Carnochan eject safely.
- 27 October - General Dynamics F-111E-CF, 67-0116 , c/n A1-161 / E-2, of the 3246th Test Wing, Armament Development and Test Center, one of two assigned to the base, crashed at Eglin AFB, Florida, upon return from a test mission. Crew, pilot Capt. Douglas A. Joyce, and Capt. Richard Mullane, deployed crew escape module safely and were uninjured.
- 21 December - Imperial Iranian Air Force C-130H c/n 4463, delivered as 5-148 , September 1972, renumbered 5-142 , November 1973, renumbered 5-8536 , 1976, crashed during approach in bad weather to Shiraz, Iran.
1977
- 20 January - A USCG Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard, 1448 , strikes three electrical transmission wires and crashes into the ice-filled Illinois River. The crew had been performing an aerial ice patrol along the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. The names of the personnel killed in the incident were: LTJG Frederick William Caesar III USN, LTJG John Francis Taylor (CG Aviator #1620), AT2 John B. Johnson, Mr. Jim Simpson (Civilian). The Air Station the aircraft and/or crew were assigned to was AIRSTA Chicago.
- 3 March - Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Italian Air Force C-130H Hercules MM61996 , c/n 4492, '46-10', of the 46 Aerobrigata, crashed into Monte Serra, 15 kilometers E of Pisa, Italy.
- 21 June - USN EC-130Q Hercules TACAMO III BuNo 156176 , c/n 4280, of VQ-3, crashed in the Pacific Ocean after night take-off from Wake Island.
- 4 October - First production prototype FMA IA 58 Pucará, AX-03 , of the Fuerza Aérea Argentina, crashes during preparations for the 50th Anniversary of the Fabrica Militar de Aviones at Córdoba, due to pilot error.
1978
- 27 March - A USN F-14A-70-GR Tomcat, BuNo 158995 , 'NK 106', of VF-1, crashes and catapults across scrub grass to come to rest against a concrete highway divider on CA-163 on approach to NAS Miramar, San Diego, California, exploding in flames. Both crew members eject seconds before impact; one fatality, no civilian deaths.
- 4 May - First prototype Have Blue stealth test bed, c/n 1001, on its 37th flight, hit the runway a little too hard at Groom Lake, Nevada and had to lift off for another pass rather than go into a skid, but had bent the right main gear strut. The landing gear had been retracted after the "touch and go", and now the right main gear leg wouldn't extend. Despite many attempts, there was no way to get the gear down. Critically low on fuel, Lockheed test pilot Bill Park decided to eject and let the aircraft crash into the desert. Park suffered a serious back injury and concussion, ending his career as a test pilot. The airframe was bulldozed under the desert. News of the crash leaked to the press, and some vague comments were made about the possible existence of "stealth" aircraft.
- 19 May - First prototype Sikorsky YUH-60A Black Hawk, 73-21650 , crashes during testing at the Sikorsky plant, Stratford, Connecticut, killing three company personnel. Army investigation reveals that during routine maintenance the night before the fatal flight, the airspeed sensor for the tailplane actuating system was inadvertently left unconnected. As the aircraft transitioned from hover to forward flight, the tailplane did not automatically change its angle and as speed built up, it forced the helicopter's nose down until an attitude was reached from which recovery was impossible. A manual back-up system was available and functioning, and could have been used to correct the tailplane angle, but for unexplained reasons it was not used, possibly due to failure to analyze the nature of the problem in time. Minor modifications are introduced as a result of this accident.
- 8 June - During ammunition certification tests by the Joint Test Force, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California, Major (later Major General) Francis C. "Rusty" Gideon Jr. in A-10A Thunderbolt II, 73-1669 , c/n A10-0006, call sign "Paco 40", makes fourth firing pass of five, 100 rounds per pass, but experiences secondary gun gas ignition in front of the GAU-8 muzzle, causing oxygen starvation of engines necessitating emergency shut-down. Before he can relight the cooling engines, he runs out of altitude and ejects in Escapac ejection seat at 2,000
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