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Date: | Friday 23 February 1990 |
Time: | |
Type: | Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor |
Owner/operator: | US Navy |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Summerdale, Alabama -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Whiting Field NAS, FL |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:A Marine Corps student pilot and his U.S. Navy instructor from Whiting Field, Florida, were killed after two Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentors collided in mid-air, near Summerdale, Alabama.One aircraft crashed near the edge of the field, killing the instructor pilot, Lt. Gordon Bruce Wulf, 29, a Wichita, Kansas, native who lived in Cantonment, Florida, and his student, Marine 1st Lt. Cary K. Smith Jr., 25, of Columbia, South Carolina. The second aircraft made an emergency landing at another outlying field about 15 miles away near Silverhill, Alabama, with only slight damage and without injury to the instructor pilot or his student.
Sources:
1. Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola News Journal, Wednesday, 5 June 1991, page 8A.
2. Associated Press, "Military says sailor was in radio contact with planes that collided", Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 27 February 1990, p. 5B.
3. Norman, Brett, staff writer, "Few details in training accident that killed instructor, student", Pensacola News-Journal, Pensacola, Florida, Friday 29 September 2000.
4.
http://www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/t-34c-crash.170/ 5.
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/Today/Local/ST006.shtml Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Sep-2010 14:30 |
ASN Archive |
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27-Aug-2014 22:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |