Posts Tagged ‘1991’

S/N #70-2461 Mishap aircraft stationed with Det 3, 37th ARS. Aircraft was on Grand Forks TACAN 300 degree Radial, 30.5 DME. While on a medevac mission for an injured missile maintenance technician, the aircraft crashed killing all four crew members (2 pilots, 2 med techs). Main rotor separation following mast bumping due to low rotor…

An MH-60G Pave Hawk based at Eglin AFB, Florida, crashes on a reef in about three feet of water off Antigua in the Caribbean, injuring six of eight aboard, but no fatalities. (Another account states that all eight sustained injuries. Although initially reported to have been on a training mission, an accident report obtained by…

S/N #88-26110 30 October 1991: United States Air Force Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk, 88-26110, call sign “Jolly 110,” assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard, headed out into a hurricane that would become known as “The Perfect Storm,” to attempt a rescue 250 miles (400 kilometers) out to sea. Aboard were…

UH-1N #69-6634 of the 6512th Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, CA. disintegrated and caught fire at about 8,000 and crashed while on a routine parachute training mission. Killed in the crash were Capt. Jay David Burdett (P), SSgt. John R. Anderson (Aerial photographer), SSgt. Kurt H. Ellington (Survival Instructor) and two other crew members were…

A UH-1N 69-6635 of the 6512th Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, CA. crashed while on a routine training mission due to main drive shaft failure. Killed in the crash were Capt. John Augustine (P), SSgt. Robert Lovell and two other crew members were injured. ~Additional Information Provided by Major Alan D. Resnicke, USAF (Retired)~ The…