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Date: | Tuesday 14 October 1975 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle |
Owner/operator: | 555th TFTS, 58th TFTW, USAF |
Registration: | 73-0088 |
MSN: | A-022 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Luke AFB, West of Minersville, Beaver County, Utah -
United States of America
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Luke AFB, Arizona (LUF/KLUF) |
Destination airport: | Luke AFB, Arizona (LUF/KLUF) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed 14-10-1975 near Luke AFB, west of Minersville, Utah, due to electrical smoke/fire from generator failure, shortly after take off, after a generator failure and smoke in cockpit: the pilot ejected safely. This was the first ever F-15 crash
Sources:
1. Davies, Steve, and Dildy, Doug, F-15 Eagle Engaged—The World's Most Successful Jet Fighter, Osprey Publishing, Botley, Oxford, UK, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84603-169-4, page 240.
2.
http://web.archive.org/web/20171029221354/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_type/f-15.htm 3.
http://www.f-15.nl/wo.html 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1975-1999)
5.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1973.html 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_F-15_losses 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minersville,_Utah Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Apr-2012 09:28 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Apr-2012 10:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
03-Dec-2014 07:05 |
Waldo |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
11-Jul-2016 23:39 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |