ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 60426
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| Date: | Wednesday 5 April 1989 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  General Dynamics F-111F |
| Owner/operator: | 494th TFS, 48th TFW, USAF |
| Registration: | 70-2397 |
| MSN: | E2-36 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 60 miles SE of Tonopah, Nevada -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Nellis AFB, Nevada |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Although normanlly based at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, England, 70-2397 was participating in the "Red Flag '89/1" exercises at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Crashed and destroyed on April 5 1989 about 60 miles southeast of Tonopah during a training exercise at the Nellis Bombing Range. The loss was due to the aircraft hitting the crest of a ridge near Tonapah, Nevada.
Per eyewitness report: "They were apparently flying below the mesas and turned into a box canyon. They realized they couldn't pull up in time so ejected. The F-111 went straight into the wall of the mesa. The capsule clipped the edge of the mesa and tumbled for a few hundred yards across the top of the mesa. It was a double fatal. Just a fraction of a second different in timing and they may have made it"
Both crew - 1st Lt. Bob Boland (pilot) and Captain James A. Gleason (WSO) - were killed
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20170921070650/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/F_111/F-111.htm
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1970.html
http://www.f-111.net/t_no_F.htm
https://pacaeropress.websitetoolbox.com/post/Ejection-Decision-A-Second-Too-Late-6104485?trail=
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Jul-2011 08:35 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Jul-2011 08:36 | Anon. | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Feb-2013 13:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Embed code] |
| 04-Feb-2013 15:14 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Feb-2013 15:16 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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