Date:	Wednesday 8 September 1993
Time:	night
Type:	Grumman A-6E Intruder
Owner/operator:	VA-95, US Navy
Registration:	164385
MSN:	I-725
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	USS Abraham Lincoln, Persian Gulf, 37 miles E of the coast of Kuwait -   Kuwait
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) off Kuwait
Destination airport:	USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) off Kuwait
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A-6E Intruder BuNo. 164385/NH-501 of VA‑95, US Navy, based on board the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72). Destroyed September 8, 1993 in a Mid-Air collision (formation incident) over the Persian Gulf, 37 miles East of the coast of Kuwait, with A-6E Intruder BuNo. 161682. Both crew in both aircraft ejected and survived: they were recovered by the carriers "plane guard" SAR Helicopter. The rescuers pulled all four crewmen from the water in what they reported as “good condition.”

Both crew - Lt P. Gillis (pilot) and Lt Douglas J. Fitzgerald (Bombardier/Navigator) - on board BuNo. 164385 were recovered. BuNo 164385 was the 725th and last production Grumman A-6

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20180422222159/http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/A-6.html
2. http://www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries21.html
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20171103001143/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_type/a6_prowler.htm
4. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/abraham-lincoln-cvn-72-ii.html

A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6E Intruder (BuNo 164385) of Attack Squadron VA-145 "Swordsmen". VA-145 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-61) for a deployment to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean from 1 August 1992 to 31 January 1993.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2009 11:55	ASN archive	Added
05-Apr-2016 19:48	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
05-Apr-2016 19:49	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities]