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Main article: A (USAAF) 43-38856, coded 'GD-M', of the,, crashes on the east facing slope of North Barrule in the killing 31 US service personnel (including ground crew) en route from (USAAF Station 167) to,, for memorial service for. 26 April During a training exercise, a, 43-38859, collided in mid-air with another Fortress,, 44-8687. #859 crash-landed and was repaired. #687 was destroyed, with only 2 crew escaping and surviving the incident. 28 April, 43-22644, assigned to the 611 Base Unit at, Ohio, crashes into the, 3 Miles NE of after being struck by a test Speedee (Highball) which tears off tail unit, bomber instantly nosing over into the water. It had taken off from, Florida, on a low level bombing exercise at AAF water range Number 60, immediately S of.

All 3 occupants killed 29 April A trainer, 42-84963, c.n. 88-16744, of the 2002d Base Unit, piloted by Cadet Robert B. Clark, crashes into 3 miles SE of the,, (in the ) due to weather. The Binghamton Press of 1 May 1945 reports that 'the young flier was on a routine night cross-country training flight.' He was flying to in and apparently was lost when he crashed. 30 April Just before midnight this date, first production, BuNo 59359, is being prepared on the ramp at,, for a flight to, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a mechanic attempts to remove the port battery solenoid, located 14 inches below the cockpit floor, but does so without disconnecting the battery. Ratchet wrench accidentally punctures hydraulic line three inches above the battery and fluid ignites, setting entire aircraft alight, mechanic suffering severe burns.

Only number four (starboard outer) engine deemed salvageable. Cause was unqualified mechanic attempting task that only a qualified electrician should undertake. 6 May 1st Lt. Rudnick, on local training and acrobatics flight out of, Great Britain, in, 44-13720, coded 'MC-X' and named 'Mine 3 Express', of the, loses control at top of a loop at ~1445 hrs. Near, aircraft goes into irrecoverable spin, pilot bails out, airframe impacting near cottage of Springside. In June 1985, crash site excavated and some wreckage located.

8 May First prototype (of three), BuNo 01213, crashes on a landing approach to due to fuel starvation, killing test pilot Charles Cox. Two other prototypes modified with a T-tail to correct problems, but this last Curtiss design for the never enters production. Second prototype was scrapped but the third and final airframe is preserved at the in Connecticut. 10 May -based ambulance, BuNo 32360, overloaded for runway length, crashes on takeoff from airstrip, killing Lt. Slocum, AMM3C Louis F. Ceurvorst, Pfc.

Haney of the and one more unidentified. 12 May B-26 Aircraft # 42-96037 crashes near Fontenelle, France after taking off from Dijon, France for a Local Test Hop. Aircraft was based with the 432nd Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group at Dijon, France.

Crew of 8 died in crash: Pilot 1st Lt. Morton, Co-Pilot 1st Lt.

Ray, Sgt William C. Tkachuk, PFC Mathew Reynolds, Sgt. Beckett, Sgt. Denver Thompson.

15 May The crash of, 41-17011, of the 2143d Base Unit,, Alabama, kills Lt. Witnesses said that they saw the plane lose a wing after they heard an explosion.

The trainer comes down in a field described as three miles W of, Indiana, and as two miles W of, Indiana. Cedar Lake is seven miles N of Lowell. 17 May Former actor (Robert E. Hutchins) is killed in a mid-air collision while trying to land a, serial number 42-86536, of the 3026th Base Unit, when it strikes North American AT-6C Texan, 42-49068, of the same unit, at in, during a training exercise. The other pilot, Edward F. Hamel, survives. 27 May The third prototype, 42-78847, is destroyed in a crash during an air show at,, killing pilot Capt.

Glasgow and two civilians on the ground. Pilot attempted a slow roll after a low pass in formation with a and a on each wing, impacted at end of runway and plowed through line of cars on Alternate. Was flying the Lightning and was the Mustang pilot. Bong will die in a crash on 6 August. Gentile will be killed in a air crash on 28 January 1951.

28 May A, BuNo 19866, suffers from a stalled engine during a target run and crashes into near. Navy pilot E.

Frazar, of, and United States Army gunner Joseph Metz, of, survive, swim ashore, and hitchhike back to. The plane is raised from the reservoir on 20 August 2010.

The dive bomber will be transported to Pensacola, Florida for restoration by the. 4 June 'Jake' floatplane, c/n 41116, of 634 -Teisatsu, 302, crashed into the sea during night time search mission. Salvaged from waters off city, prefecture on 22 August 1992, it is displayed in unrestored condition at the,, Japan. 6 June The that led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo on 24 November 1944, 42-24592, named, of the,,,, departs at 0306 hrs. For the second leg of a ferry flight back to the United States, commanded by Capt. Forty seconds after takeoff, the aircraft strikes the Pacific Ocean and sinks, killing 10 of 13 on board instantly. Co-pilot 1st Lt.

John Neville, of, tailgunner S/Sgt. Gregory, of, and left gunner S/Sgt. Charles McMurray (also spelt McMurry in one source), of, are thrown from the wreckage and are recovered by a rescue boat after some 45 minutes in the water. A search for the lost airframe by the Australia has been proposed. 13 June A USAAF, 42-95095, of the,, returning home to the USA from crashes at, in the remote in,, killing its entire crew of nine from 66th Bombardment Squadron; also on board were six crewmen from. Pilot was Jack B.

A memorial has been erected at the site. 19 June Five men were killed when their army plane crashed near, Tuesday (this date), the reported on 21 June. The plane, en route from, Florida, to, South Carolina, came down in a storm, stated officials at, Florida. McGinnis, 24, the pilot, was from the Marianna base. He was the son of Joseph A. The others, all stationed at Myrtle Beach were:' First Lt. Schirmer, 25,, California; T-Sgt.

Koger, 25, husband of Mary G. Koger of, Georgia; T-Sgt. Epperson, 25,, Illinois; and S-Sgt.

Simmons, 26,, Florida. 'McGinnis was an instructor pilot with more than 1,200 hours of flying time and combat experience with the Canadian air force before U.

Entrance in the war, and with the American air corps in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.' The Aviation Archeological Investigation and Research site lists, 44-35024, of the 137th Base Unit, as crashing on this date, but that serial ties up to an A-26B Invader. Further, the site lists the pilot as Joseph A. McGlens, Jr., and the crash location as Myrtle Beach, in direct contradiction to the Associated Press account. Circa 29 June Messerschmitt test pilot ('Hoffman' in American source) attempts to ferry captured, Werke Nummer 170083, originally coded V-083, named Happy Hunter/Wilma Jeanne II, from, near, to Airfield A-55 near, France on behalf of the USAAF Air Technical Intelligence (') for loading aboard the, suffers catastrophic failure of starboard engine at ~9,000 feet altitude and is forced to bail out over Normandy, suffering massive bruising as he deploys parachute at high speed. Aircraft was one of two conversions carrying Rheinmetall 50 mm anti-tank gun in nose for bomber attack, although it was never used operationally.

American sergeant admits a year later that he had failed to inspect this aircraft's engines before the flight. The BK-5 from this airframe is now displayed at the, Dayton, Ohio. 2 July 'A Navy pilot was killed yesterday [2 July] when his plane crashed during a routine bombing run at a target range, 10 miles east of the, according to coroner R. The coroner was notified that the pilot was flying a in a run at a target and the plane failed to come out of the dive. It hit the ground and exploded. Inentity [ sic] of the flyer was withheld pending notification of next of kin.' 5 July First prototype, completed 26 February 1945, suffers failure of port tailplane at low altitude, killing test pilot Alexandr Deyev, when his parachute fails to open in time.

Post-crash analysis revealed that he had exceeded the airframe's while maneuvering. 7 July On the first flight of the prototype, Japanese derivative of the, aircraft reaches 1,300 feet in a steep climb, then the rocket motor cut out, airframe crashing at Naval Aeronautical Engineering Arsenal. Cause believed either hydrogen peroxide shifting to rear of partially empty tank, or air leak in fuel line causing blockage.

Toyohiko Inuzuka dies in hospital the next day. A redesign of the fuel system follows, but no additional flights made before Japanese capitulation in August. 12 July A United States Army Air Forces, 44-35553, on a training flight has mid-air collision with from Washington, D.C. To, a, NC25647, at ~3100 feet, 11.9 miles WNW of at 1436 hrs.

A-26 vertical fin strikes port wing of airliner, displaces engine of DC-3 which cuts into fuselage; A-26 tail sheared off, two crew parachute, one KWF. DC-3 pilot belly lands in cornfield, one passenger of 24 total on board killed. 13 July, 42-94956, c/n 1721, of the 2135th Base Unit,, Florida, piloted by Paul R.

Snyder, crashes due to bad weather 12 miles NW of, with fatal results for the crew. Amongst the dead are gunner Cpl. Keefe, 19, of, 'the only son of O. Keefe and Alice Youmans Keefe, of this city.'

He is also survived by his grandparents, Mr. Keefe 'graduated from Orangeburg high school in 1943 and attended one term.

[sic] He entered service 22 May 1944. He was a member of Tabernacle Baptist church.

[sic] The message of Corporal Keefe's death was received by his parents Saturday morning.' 14 July, (built as B-25C-1), 41-13105, assigned to the,, near, Louisiana, crashes and burns one mile NW of, Texas, in a heavy rainstorm, killing nine crew. 14 July, 44-86329, of the 237th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School), suffers engine failure on takeoff from,, New Mexico, and crashes, killing 13 and injuring one.

15 July A, 44-61721, c/n 11198, of the 236th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School),, Texas, piloted by Lieutenant Edward J. Szycher, of, goes missing after the crew bails out at 9,500 feet over northern Minnesota, 180 miles NNW of, after the bomber became filled with gasoline fumes that threatened to asphyxiate the crew. All ten crew descend safely, although one lands in Napoleon Lake in, and has to swim ashore. Airframe has never been discovered. 16 July ', July 17 () - The embassy said today three officers of the Cuban army en route to Washington were killed in an airplane crash near, S.C., yesterday.' 'In July the 16th of 1945 the Lieutenants Zorilla and Henderson flying a number 212 and carrying as a passenger Major Rivero, an aid to the Chief of the Army suffered an accident while on an approach to the in South Carolina, United States while returning from a flight of two aircraft to Washington DC.

In the other aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Fernandez 'El Callao' was on board the Chief of the Cuban Army General.' Crash near; Captain Roberto Henderson Benzanilla; Major Nicolas Rivero Garcia; Lt. Ricardo Zorrilla Armenteros; Genovevo Perez Damera. 18 July, BuNo 30414, overshoots runway while landing at Convair Field,. 28 July A US Army Air Forces bomber, 41-30577, named ' Old John Feather Merchant', into the 79th floor of the in fog at 0949 hrs., killing 3 on aircraft plus 11 on ground and causing over US$1 million in damage.

28 July A glider, 45-16072, of the 809th Base Unit,, Indiana, crashes at,, killing the two crew. 'Airport officials said that the plane towing the glider was forced down in a rain storm and that the pilot, seeing that the glider could not clear a clump of trees, cut it loose from the plane.' KWF are pilot Major George S. Branson, 33, of, and Sergeant Maurice J. Aucoin, 21, of.

'Next of kin have been notified, and an investigation by a board of officers has been called to determine the cause of the crash.' 1 August A, 44-34096, en route from, Georgia, to, California, crashes in the, 25 miles SW of, after apparent engine failure, killing the seven crew, Lt. Wilson Parker, Lt. William Bartlett, Lt. James Garland, Sgt. Irwin Marcus, Sgt.

Robert Crook, Sgt. Harold Post and Sgt. John Jackson. The airframe was so heavily damaged that no determination of the cause could be made. 2 August, 44-83029, c/n 080-1008, of the, as of April 1945, crashes near, killing pilot Major Ira Boyd Jones, 25, of. The plane left, Ohio, shortly after 1400 hours, on a routine test flight to an unspecified army air field in Texas, said Brig.

Morris, commanding general of Wright Field. 'Eight-year-old Chester and Martha Smedley, 14, of near Brandenburg, said they saw a 'big explosion' in the sky. Their father, Sheriff Alex Smedley of [sic], added that the explosion blew the wings loose from the fuselage, landing 200 or 300 feet apart. Jones' body, the sheriff said, was found about a quarter of a mile from the wreckage.' Jones, a fighter pilot with 11 months service in the China-Burma-India theatre, was attached to the fighter test branch at Wright Field. He was the son of Mrs.

Jones, of Lancaster, South Carolina, and was a graduate of the. This airframe was one the test P-80s shipped to, in December 1944, for tests by Wright Field personnel under combat conditions. 3 August Four USAAF crewmen are killed as two collide and crash in a field three miles NE of. 'The planes were flying formation with 10 others en route to the when the accident occurred, Police Chief John L. Watson reported.'

A-26B-10-DL, 41-39130, piloted by 2d Lt. Napier, of, and A-26B-20-DT, 43-22432, flown by 1st Lt. Benson, of 728 Wynewood Road,, both of the 127th Base Unit,, are also described as coming down five miles NE of Bennettsville. Also killed are Sgt.

James Collins, Jr., son of James J. Collins, Sr., of 827 6th Avenue, N.,, and Sgt. MacNeil, son of Mrs.

Margaret MacNeil, 111 Smith Street,. Benson is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Napier is survived by his widow, Vera E. It is unclear from news accounts which enlisted man was in which plane. 'The accident was the second mid-air collision in South Carolina within a month. An Transport and an army plane 80 miles from on July 12, killing three persons.' 5 August First production flying boat, BuNo 76819, 'christened ' Hawaii Mars', finished in overall dark blue, crashes on test flight in the near, after porpoising during landing – never delivered to the. 'Launched only two weeks ago, the Hawaii Mars was on a routine test flight over the bay when, a crewman said, the upper section of the plane's vertical fin broke away at an altitude of 6,000 feet. 'The ship began to flutter immediately and went out of control,' the crew member added, asking that his name not be used.

'The pilot cried out 'prepare to abandon ship.' But pilot William E.

Coney, a navy flyer on loan to the, regained partial control of the giant craft and some ten minutes later ordered 'stand by for crash.' The plane struck the water about 500 yards off shore.

The impact of the 125-mile-an-hour blow ripped open the metal hull, and the plane sank until only part of its tail and left wing remained visible. Two crew members trapped in the flight deck were rescued by companions who ignored the danger of a gasoline explosion. Small boats that sped to the crash scene took the ten to shore. Noble, flight test engineer, was taken to South Baltimore hospital with cuts, bruises and possible internal injuries. A navy announcement in said the plane would be taken to the Martin plant.' Noble was the only injury amongst the ten man crew. 'Witnesses said the plane, apparently having trouble with one of her four engines, came down 500 yards off shore, parts of it remaining above water.'

5 August A, built as a B-17G-70-BO, 43-37700, of the 325th Combat Crew Training Squadron,, Florida, crashes six miles S of, after the number 2 (port inner) engine catches fire at 10,000 feet during a flight from, New York, to its home base in Florida. Pilot Lieutenant Dewey O.

Jones orders the crew to abandon ship. An announcement released by the, Georgia, public relations office states that five parachuted safely, three were killed, and that two other men were missing. Listed as fatalities are Flight Officer Alfred Ponessa, of, a passenger, Sergeant Leo B. Bucharia, of, and Technical Sergeant Edwin S. Salas, of, both members of the crew. The missing were listed as Lieutenant William Cherry and Corporal Sidney Podhoretz (addresses not available). The names of the other four survivors were not given.

6 August All-time highest-scoring American (40 credited kills) is killed trying to of a jet fighter, 44-85048, after a fuel pump failure during a test flight at,, USA. News of Bong's death is overshadowed by the dropping of the first nuclear weapon on the same day. The never completed in Wisconsin was named for him. 8 August While operating off the coast of, light cruiser loses seaplane, BuNo 35555, during an aircraft launch and recovery operation. The aircraft noses over while taxiing towards the recovery sled, throwing pilot Ens.

Merryman clear of the cockpit, and capsizes. Pilot rescued by the ship's whaleboat. Airframe sinks.

8 August Flying over, Florida,, 44-69973, of the 326th CCTS,, Florida, suffers a mechanical failure and crashes into swampland seven miles E of town according to one source, or seven miles W according to another. Lighting Reality Keygen Photoshop more. Eleven of the twelve crew members safely parachute out, including the co-pilot, whom the pilot frees from the bomb hatch. The pilot, Robert A. Lane, cannot escape and goes down with the plane. 11 August First of only two twin-jet fighters, completed on 25 June, first flown 7 August for eleven minutes by Lt. Sasumu Tanaoka out of, crashes on second flight this date. Second unflown Kikka is shipped to the United States after the Japanese capitulation.

17 August During, the RAF airlift of troops home from Italian deployment,, ME834, coded 'KO-G', of 115 Squadron, based at, struck HK798, coded 'KO-H', of the same squadron, and PB754, coded 'TL-A', of Graveley-based 35 Squadron when it swerves off runway while taking off from. 17 August Two bombers collide over during a bomber training exercise. Eight crew members were killed, 2 managed to escape from the falling wreckage and parachute to safety., 42-93895, of the 234th Combat Crew Training Squadron,, New Mexico, and, 44-86276, (the last Block 40-MO airframe) of the 231st Combat Crew Training Squadron,, New Mexico, involved. 18 August Last U.S. Air combat casualty of World War II occurs during mission 230 A-8, when two of the,, launch from, Okinawa, for a photo reconnaissance run over.

Both bombers are attacked by several Japanese fighters of both the 302nd Air Group at and the Air Group that make 10 gunnery passes. Japanese and are part of this attack. B-32 piloted by 1st Lt. Anderson, is hit at 20,000 feet, cannon fire knocks out number two (port inner) engine, and three crew are injured, including Sgt. Marchione, 19, of the, who takes 20 mm hit to the chest, dying 30 minutes later.

Tail gunner Sgt. John Houston destroys one attacker. Lead bomber,, 42-108532, 'Hobo Queen II', piloted by 1st Lt. James Klein, is not seriously damaged but second, 42-108578, loses engine, has upper turret knocked out of action, and loses partial rudder control.

Both bombers land at Yontan Airfield just past ~1800 hrs. After surviving the last air combat of the Pacific war. The following day, propellers are removed from Japanese aircraft as part of surrender agreement. Marchione is buried on Okinawa on 19 August, his body being returned to his home on 18 March 1949. He is interred in St. Aloysius Old Cemetery with full military honors. B-32, 42-108578, will be scrapped at after the war.

19 August Pilot 1st Lt. Holt ferries captured A, 500098, 'Cookie VII', FE-4011, from, New Jersey to, Indiana, with a refuelling stop at at ~ 1600 hrs, as one of two Messerschmitts being sent for testing after arriving in the U.S. Upon landing at Pittsburgh, he experiences complete brake failure, overruns the runway, goes down steep incline, hits opposite side of ditch, tearing engines and undercarriage off of the jet and breaking the fuselage in half. Pilot is unhurt but airframe is a total loss. 24 August Second (of two prototypes), BuNo 48236, is damaged in a. 28 August Consolidated, 42-108528, of the 386th BS, 312th BG, crashed east of in the after engine failure. 11 of 13 aboard survived.

One of the last operational missions of World War II. Also, this date,, 42-108544, written off when it lost an engine on takeoff from,. Skidded off runway, exploded, and burned. 9 September, 42-108532, 'Hobo Queen II', is damaged when the nose wheel accidentally retracts on the ground at, Okinawa. Two days later, a hoist lifting the B-32 drops it twice. Since the war has ended, it is not repaired but is disassembled at the airfield.

12 September On first flight of, 43-52437, out of, California, aircraft behaves normally for ~15 minutes, then at an altitude of ~7,000 feet begins a slow roll from which it fails to recover. Pilot Harry Crosby bails out at 2,000 feet but is struck by revolving aircraft and his chute does not deploy. Largely airframe is totally consumed by fire after impact on desert floor. 12 September Pilot 1st Lt. Anspach attempts to ferry captured F, FE-113, coded '10', from, New Jersey, where it had been offloaded from the, to, Indiana for testing.

While letting down for refuelling stop at, a faulty electrical horizontal trim adjustment switch goes to full-up position, cannot be manually overridden. Pilot spots small dirt strip, the, S of, and makes emergency landing. Upon applying brakes, right one fails immediately, fighter pivots left, landing gear collapses, propeller rips away.

Pilot uninjured, but Fw 190 is hauled to Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, and scrapped. Prop ends up on wall of local flying club. The press never gets wind of the accident, nor of the 19 August crash landing at Pittsburgh. 14 September Hurricane destroys three wooden blimp hangars at,, southwest of, with 140 mph winds. Roofs collapse, ruptured fuel tanks are ignited by shorted electrical lines, fire consumes twenty-five blimps (eleven deflated), 31 non-Navy U.S. Government aircraft, 125 privately owned aircraft, and 212 Navy aircraft.

Thirty-eight Navy personnel injured, civilian fire chief killed. Air operations are reduced to a minimum following this storm, and NAS Richmond is closed two months later.

18 September A, 42-94551, belly lands at, Kansas, after suffering engine problems. 22 September On first day of planned two-day exhibition of captured German aircraft at, Indiana, pilot Lt. Paul Jackson Jr Out Of The Shadows Rar. Haynes, 20, completes his flying routine in one of the eight remaining at the base, (this being the same Fw 190D-9, Werke Nummer 211016, coded FE-119, that he had ferried from Newark, New Jersey to Freeman on 13 September), when, as he prepares to land, at ~300 feet AGL, the aircraft pitches up and rolls over, bellying into the ground nose up. Aircraft destroyed, pilot killed.

Although investigation cites 'pilot error' (it was thought he may have attempted a wing-over at too low an altitude for recovery), this may well have been another example of the faulty electrical horizontal trim switch problem that caused the loss of the Fw 190 at Hollidaysburg Airport, Pennsylvania on 12 September. Recent excavations at the former Freeman Field have uncovered various aircraft components that were apparently buried to dispose of them when the base was being shut down in 1947–1948. 29 September, 44-27303, named ' Jabit III', of the,,, on cross-country training mission, strikes several objects on landing at,, never flies again. Assigned to the 4200th Base Unit at the airport pending disposition decision, it is salvaged there in April 1946. 2 October A U.S.

Navy, BuNo 59336, of, carrying, commander of Carrier Division 22, and eight others disappears near, Japan while on a familiarization flight. The wreckage and their bodies will not be discovered until 19 November 1948. 3 October Captured V14, which on 6 September 1945 became the first helicopter to fly across the when it was moved from to, crashes on third test flight at RAF Beaulieu, when a driveshaft failed. The accident was thought to be due to a failure to correctly tension the steel cables which secured the engine, despite warnings from Luftwaffe helicopter pilot Helmut Gerstenhauer. Main article: A flying boat, BuNo 59098, supporting, departs from seaplane tender on a prolonged reconnaissance flight, crashes during a blizzard in.

Three crew members are killed and six others were stranded 13 days before being rescued. The three who died, Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez, ARM1 Wendell K. Henderson, and ARM1 Frederick W. Williams, were buried at the crash site and their remains have not been recovered. 1947 [ ] 15 January An Beechcraft with five Air Force personnel and one civilian aboard develops engine trouble and crashes about halfway between and in the.

All are killed. 20 January ', Tex., Jan 20, () - Two persons were killed and three injured in the crash of an army nine miles southwest of Rotan today. Six survivors parachuted from the craft, which was being ferried from,, Kas., to. Three of these received only minor injuries. Henningsen, of Salina, pilot of the plane, who received minor cuts on his leg, identified the dead as Lt. Davenport of, N. Y., and Tech.

Joseph of Salina. Paul Taylor, the navigator, and Sgt. Felkel also were injured.' 20 January A, operated by the Naval Air Transport Service, crashes while making a ground control approach to fog-bound, California, when it strikes an embankment and disintegrates as it slides down the runway after the undercarriage was sheared off.

Despite this, 20 of 21 aboard survive, although with injuries. A medical corpsman is the only fatality. 26 January ', Jan. 29 (Wednesday). () - The announced today that Lt. Fuller,, Ga., and Cpl.

Mobley,, [sic] Ga., were killed Sunday in the crash of their training plane one mile north of the army's on.' 27 January, 44-65385, of the 428th Base Unit,,, for bomb development testing, crashed immediately after take-off from Kirtland on routine maintenance test flight. No specific cause is documented – a fire in one engine and the pilot's failure to compensate for loss of power is believed to have caused the accident. Twelve crew KWF.

28 January Two collide in flight 12 miles S of,, Florida, killing one pilot and injuring the other when he bails out. Lieb, USNR, 28,, Iowa.

Donald Loranger, USNR, 22, of, California, suffers a broken leg in his bail out. 28 January ', N. Bohart, pilot at, said he thought the shooting was all over. Now he's not so sure. Taxiing toward the runway, Bohart noticed a tire going flat. Inside the tire mechanics found an.'

February Second prototype, BuNo 31402, of only two built, crashes at,, during testing of full-span Duplex wingflaps and dual rotation propellers. 18 February The becomes the world's first to launch a guided missile when it fires a, which then crashes after flying only 6,000 yards, due to an apparent control malfunction. Damage to airplanes and cars from the 25 March tornado.

20, 25 March Two large tornadoes strike,, damaging or destroying a large number of aircraft including at least two, a, and many stored from World War II. In the first storm, '54 aircraft were destroyed, including 17 C-54 transports valued at $500,000 apiece. Also destroyed were 15 fighters and two B-29 bombers. About 50 other planes were damaged and about 100 vehicles were damaged or destroyed.' In the second tornado, '84 planes were hit, 35 of which were destroyed.

These included 18 B-29s, 8 P-47s, 20, and 3 C-47s. Hangars and other buildings were destroyed.' Other types destroyed included and and. Damage from the second tornado was estimated at $6,100,000. Total damages for both storms was estimated at $16,350,000.

21 March ', Wash., March 21. - An air force with eight men aboard vanished over southwestern during a severe storm this afternoon as it was making an instrument approach to the, Ore.,. Fears that it had crashed were heightened when no trace of the twin-engined transport was found by the time its fuel was exhausted at 5:07 p.m. Announced the names of five of the men aboard. They were: Maj.

Harding, the pilot, Fairfield-Suisun base. Tillery,, Calif. Garber,, Calif. Ziegler,, Calif. Pressey, Oakland, Calif. Last radio contact with the plane was at 1:07 p.m.

At that time the pilot messaged he was 25 [miles] north of Portland making a procedure turn at 4000 feet for an instrument letdown. The missing craft was on a routine training flight from its home field at Fairfield-Suisun, (Calif.) to Portland. An intensive ground search of the area was launched by Washington and Oregon state police.

Low clouds, heavy rains and limited visibility prevented rescue planes from taking off here or at Portland.' 31 March One of two, BuNo 83414, en route from, Oregon, to, crashes in woods near, killing pilot Robert W. Loggers who witnessed the troubled flight and plummet to earth penetrated the rugged forest area on a ridge of the pacific coast mountains. Hamilton reported that the pilot had apparently tried to parachute as the shrouds were tangled in the wreckage. The engine was buried. The logger said that the plane must have come down in a dive as the treetops were not sheared off. Wreckage rediscovered by loggers on 10 March 2010.

31 March ', N. Y., March 31 () - Two air force fliers were killed today when a fighter plane from crashed and burned in a wooded area near the field. Alan Belmarsh, 26, of, Mass., was killed instantly. Fritsche, 25, of route 4,, Texas, died at the Mitchel field base hospital.' 2 April A USAF Reserve goes missing during a 35-mile flight from, Washington, to, near, Washington, with three men aboard.

Wreckage is sighted on 4 April near the summit of 5,344-foot, in the, ~18 miles NE of, Washington. Randolph, air reserve commander at McChord, reports from a search plane that the identity is confirmed by tail numbers on the downed craft.

McChord authorities identified the victims as: Capt. McLaughlin, pilot,, Washington, on active army duty as commanding officer of the Seattle air reserve; 2d Lt. Geyer, co-pilot,, Washington; and T/Sgt.

Fields,, Washington. Two Air Force ground parties were en route to the crash site. The wreck site was finally reached on 7 April. 3 April ', April 3 () - Ten persons escaped unhurt today when an Air Force, arriving from, struck a ditch at the end of a Municipal airport runway and nosed over.'

5 April A Soviet fighter buzzes a, G-AIVP, c/n 229, while it is on a scheduled flight to, then collides with the wing of the airliner, killing the pilots of both aircraft and ten passengers on the Viking. Total fatalities is 15. 5 April A crashes in a field three miles E of, California, with pilot 1st Lt. Reints of the suffering only a sprained ankle and a head bruise in the bail out. He narrowly misses a house as he lands at Ely Street and Archibald Avenue.

The jet impacts on Grove Avenue near Edison Avenue. 5 April Two U.S.

Marine planes and four Marine fliers go missing during night aerial manoeuvers off, Oahu, Hawaii, and it is assumed that they collided. The Navy suspends its search for the missing aircrew on 7 April, but 20 Marine planes continue to scan for survivors, No wreckage is found at all. 9 April A six-month fatality-free period at, Florida, (the longest since the base opened) ends when Capt.

William Robbins, 26, is killed in the crash of a, 44-74913, in a wooded area N of. The pilot in the Friday morning accident was father of three and was well known for his involvement with the. A resident of, Robbins is buried in his hometown of on 11 April. 10 April, Florida, suffers second accident in two days when from,, goes down in the S of.

Two of three crew survive by parachuting from stricken bomber, TDY here for firing exercises over the Gulf. First Lieutenant John Kubo and T/Sgt. Riley (ages, hometowns not given) are rescued by Eglin crash boats. KWF is T/Sgt. Brizendine, officially listed as missing. 10 April ', Ark., April 11 () - Two men were killed when an army crashed here last night after radioing that the plane was running low on fuel.

The dead were identified as Sgt. Morris, 27, of and Capt. Barber Jr., 29, of, Tex.'

13 April ', April 13 () - A Navy carrier-type plane crashed into a house today and seriously injured Jackson G. Armstrong, 28, test pilot for, which built the restricted craft. Armstrong, former Army Air Force pilot, experienced engine trouble at 5,000 feet and headed for an emergency landing. His plane shot uncontrolled down the runway and off a 60-foot embankment at the end. Its speed was such that the plane, with power shut off, carried 300 feet further through the air, struck telephone lines and plowed into a house, caromed off and lodged 15 feet above the ground in a tree.' 23 April ', Ark., April 23 () - Four servicemen were killed instantly when a plane, believed to be an Air Force, crashed today in a wooded area four miles northeast of Canfield.

Officers from, La. Withheld names of the victims pending notification of the next of kin.' 25 April As, based at, transitions from to, on this date Flight Lieutenant Duncan Bell-Irving, a regular force officer attached to the squadron, carries out a successful forced landing on the airfield after his engine fails at 1,000 feet, just after takeoff. 28 April ', April 28 () - One torpedo plane crashed as Navy bombers engaged submarines in maneuvers off here today. There was no sign of its crew of three in the recovered wreckage. The received word from the first task fleet that radio contact was lost with plane about 4 a.m.

Wreckage was recovered 45 miles off the coast sometime later by search craft. Bombers were sent out in an attempt to destroy screening submarines of an 'enemy' naval force off the coast. The main enemy force was sighted but weather prevented the scheduled mass air attack. This is expected tomorrow - the fourth of six days of exercises.' 29 April Pilot Lt. Ralph Van Kerhove, of, crash lands his of the,, on mud flats 20 miles W of, Alaska. He scrambles free despite injuries before the fighter explodes and burns.

A helicopter crew, monitoring his distress call, responds to the scene and braves exploding.50 caliber ammunition in the burning Mustang to pick up the pilot, lying on the ground with shock and superficial cuts 300 feet from the plane. 'Kerhove was in the 183rd hospital at here in less than 30 minutes.' 3 May Second, BuNo 37971, NACA 141, crashes on takeoff on 20th flight for (46th total take-off) at,, due to compressor disintegration that cut control runs in fuselage, killing NACA pilot Howard C.

Lilly is the first NACA pilot to die while on duty, and the first pilot who had flown at supersonic speed to be killed. He was unmarried. His parents lived in, West Virginia. 3 May A of the crashes shortly after takeoff from on Monday night, with one crewman burned to death and two seriously injured. Navy aviator is killed when his target-towing crashes offshore of, Hawaii, during gunnery practice.

The pilot's name was withheld pending notification of kin. 6 May Two US Air Force go missing in Alaska. Found on 8 May, 90 miles N of, where they made crash landings. Uninjured are Lts. Grady Morris,, Florida, and Garnett D. Page,, Alabama. 6 May The U.S.

Navy completes the first carrier qualifications of a jet-equipped squadron this date, when flies aboard and launches from, operating off of, Rhode island, in the Atlantic, in. Tragedy stalks the undertaking, though, when VF-17A squadron commander Ralph A. Fuoss, 33, of, plunges into the water 2,000 feet short of the runway at as he leads his flight in for a routine landing. Fuoss' body is recovered along with the wreckage of his plane on 9 May.

An investigation is underway to determine whether the crash was the result of mechanical failure or a mid-air collision. 'His wing man, Lt. John Sullivan of, Mass., reported after landing safely that part of the tail surface of Fuoss' plane had struck his wing.' 9 May Routine radio traffic from a U.S. Navy amphibious patrol bomber between and is last heard at 0300 hrs. This date, with no mention of trouble.

A search for the flight and the twelve aboard it is underway by the Navy and Air Force the Navy announces on 10 May. Johnson, deputy commanding officer of the, Florida, fighter section, is killed when his disintegrates during an air demonstration on the Eglin reservation, in front of some 600 witnesses. The public information officer at Eglin stated that the pilot was 'engaged in operational tests on the plane' when the accident occurred. Johnson, a resident of, was originally from. He had served a year in Italy flying 50 missions in with the, earning the and the air medal with five clusters.

He had attended the and graduated from the U.S. Army flying school in 1940. 13 May ', Switzerland, May 13.() - Maj., who helped rescue 12 Americans from [sic] in 1946, died in a plane crash today.

Hitz, 30, and Cpl. Willy Kiene were killed when their army plane crashed while practicing emergency landings. Hitz and another Swiss army pilot landed on the glacier, 9000 feet above sea level, and flew the Americans out.

They had been stranded five days after a United States army transport on the ice.' Other sources list the pilot's name as Pista Hitz.

13 May Two engaged in training combat manoeuvers over, Alaska, at high altitude collide, explode, and plummet into of in view of hundreds of horrified citizens. Both pilots are killed. One body was found floating in an oil slick on the water but the other body was not immediately recovered. 13 May A USAF, making an instrument approach in a driving rainstorm to, Massachusetts, impacts the soggy ground so hard that it gouges an eight-foot crater, explodes and burns, spreading wreckage over a five acre area. All three crew are killed.

Identified the victims, all married, as: Capt. Paul Longuich, 40,, New York; 1st Lt. Lavinder, 23,, Ohio; and Staff Sgt. Jack Zaresky, 26,, New York.

14 May ', Germany, May 14 (Friday) () - The United States Air Force announced today that a crashed 120 miles northwest of, Saudi Arabia, with a possible loss of 13 lives.' 17 May ', Cal., May 17 () - Test Pilot R. Carter of, was killed today when his surplus fighter plane exploded in flight.' 18 May A, 45-8497, one of several taking part in manoeuvers testing northwest air defenses, crashes three miles E of, Washington, killing pilot Capt. Johnson,, California, said officials at on 20 May.

23 May In the early evening, ex-, registered, ex-, and operated by Bond Air Services Ltd. Carrying a cargo of from, Spain, crashes at, while on a (SBA) to in bad weather. After a steep turn to port and losing height rapidly, the Halifax towards the ground until, seeming to recover and flying straight and level and with engines at full power, the aircraft strikes the ground flat and disintegrates, breaking into its component sections. Miraculously, the crew escape alive. After initial suspicions that the cargo may have shifted in flight, the subsequent report blames loss of control by the pilot while the aircraft was too close to the ground for recovery.

27 May A en route from to its home base at, New Mexico, crashes in an electrical storm in a cornfield 20 miles SW of, Louisiana, killing all seven on board. Wreckage was scattered over at least an acre. The National Guard identified the pilot as 1st Lt. Vaughn, and the co-pilot as 2d Lt. Some of those aboard were servicemen hitching rides to the west coast.

June The second, TS413, is lost while undergoing trials with a 270 gallon ventral fuel tank, pilot Lt. Joyce-King,, killed. Loss was thought to be probably caused by rudder lock-over, sometimes experienced in a sideslip while carrying the large ventral tank. This was cured by adding a long dorsal fin on all production Attackers. 4 June ', June 12 () - Three American airmen were killed June 4 in the crash of a on the southern Japanese island of, headquarters announced today.

The victims were identified as First Lts. Johnson,, Pa., pilot, Clarence T.

Konecn,, Texas, radar observer; and Sgt. Beeles, Fulton, N.

5 June, 42-102368, c/n 1488, crashes in desert near, after both outer wings become detached from center section during spin recovery, killing pilot Maj., of, Kansas; co-pilot Capt.,, California; Lt. Edward Swindell,, Virginia; and two civilians, C. Leser,, Illinois, and C. Lafountain,, New York. All were attached to the flight test division of at, Ohio.,, is named for the pilot, and Muroc is renamed for the co-pilot on 5 December 1949. Flying wing bomber design will be revived in the 1980s as the.

12 June Pilot Capt. Myers fails to lift off from,, Kentucky, on takeoff in, 44-85116, crashes through a fence and plows into a passing car. All four in the automobile die.

Pilot uninjured. The Godman Field public information office said that the P-80 was bound for, Florida, after a stopover at Godman. The victims, all from nearby, were Vernon C. Ferren, 63; his wife, Mrs. Ferren, 50; Miss Lela Ferren, 61, a sister of Vernon Ferren; and Spencer Blackburn, 43.

This airframe had been tested with wingtip rocket racks. 19 June A departs,, Georgia, with 45 on board including 39 cadets, for a flight to, Kentucky. Shortly after takeoff a fuel line breaks and sparks from an engine exhaust set it alight. 'The flames spread over one of the wings but crew members prevented the fire from reaching the fuel tanks.' Curran, of, California, safely returns the burning transport to Lawson, where crash apparatus is standing. There are no injuries.

20 June Second Lt. Richard Ambrose, 23, a student at in, is killed in the 1450 hrs. Crash and burning of, 44-63700, c/n 122-31426, of the,,, at,, Washington. On 1 July 1948, the 116th moved to larger. Gonzaga records indicated that Ambrose was a sophomore in electrical engineering and resided at E612 Sharp in Spokane. He was the son of M. Ambrose of, New Jersey.

He attended before transferring to Gonzaga. The P-51 crashed while landing at Gray Field just after a formation flight over Gov. 's reviewing stand during a Governor's Day review.

The field is two miles from the north Fort Lewis parade grounds where the reviewing stands were located. 23 June 'Two Navy planes, flying in a seven-ship formation, crashed and burned today after colliding over the heavily-populated east side area of. The flaming wreckage set fire to four houses and a tool shop as scores of residents fled to safety. The two pilots of the single-seater planes died in the crash, and one tool shop employe [sic] was slightly injured when struck by flaming debris. First reports of the accident said three planes were involved, but public relations officers at the said only two craft figured in the crash.

Lieutenant Commander David A. Black, public relations officer, said that when the two planes collided, the others scattered hurriedly. This led some ground spectators to believe three planes had crashed, he said.' Falling wreckage set a disastrous blaze through a one-block area but rescue personnel said they thought all occupants had escaped. They were part of a formation cross-country by VA-89A to and the collision occurred during a right turn over Detroit. The prop of, BuNo 96790, flown by Ens.

Schultheiss, 24, of, Michigan, cut the tail off of, BuNo 79445, piloted by Ens. Nicholson, 25,, Iowa. The Hellcat crashed through the roof of the Putnam Tool Co., 2881 Charlevoix. 60 people in the machine shop fled to safety. The Corsair crashed and exploded two blocks away on Benson near McDougall. Observers said the pilots could have saved themselves by jumping but stayed with their planes to try to avoid damage to those living below.

27 June A of the and an, of the,, on a training mission out of, collide over, California, although the craft fall outside of town with burning wreckage spread over a quarter mile of the. Three Guardsmen are killed and two parachute to safety. Mathews of, pilot of the fighter, and Lt. Bowen of, member of the bomber crew, escaped death by bailing out.

Later the National Guard identified two of the men killed as First Lt. Van Delinder of and Second Lt. Robert Aiken of. Efforts were being made to reach vacationing parents of the third victim, an enlisted man.'

3 July ', July 3 () - A Marine fighter pilot who vanished during fleet exercises at 4:30 a.m. Was being sought by 57 planes in the area southwest of Pearl Harbor today.' 4 July The takes place on this date at 1503 hrs. When a, SE-BDA, named Agnar Viking, of (SAS) and an, MW248, of, of the (RAF) collide in mid-air over in, UK.

All thirty-nine people aboard both aircraft are killed. It was SAS's first fatal aviation accident and was at the time the deadliest civilian aviation accident in the UK. It is still the deadliest mid-air collision in British history.

8 July A, 43-48256 crashes near, Germany, killing three crew. This was the first accident during the.

KWF were 1st Lt. Smith, 1st Lt.

Williams, and Karl v. Hagen of the Department of the Army. (One source incorrectly lists this crash as involving a C-54 Skymaster.) 21 July. Main article: – A, 45-21847, modified into a reconnaissance platform, crashes into,, during a classified cosmic ray research mission out of, Naval Air Facility,,. Five crew escape unharmed before bomber sinks. 25 July A, 43-49534, c/n 5, participating in the, departs, Germany, strikes apartment building on approach to Berlin and crashes in the street, killing both crew, 1st Lt.

King, and 1st Lt. 20 August A, 42-63442, crashes near shortly after take off from, killing all 17 on board. 23 August On first flight test of the parasite fighter, 45–524, (the second of two prototypes), McDonnell test pilot Edwin F.

Schoch successfully detaches from trapeze carried on, 44-84111, named 'Monstro', but when he tries to hook up after free flight, the small fighter, buffeted in turbulence from the bomber, swings violently forward, smashes canopy against the trapeze, knocking the pilot's helmet off. Schoch successfully belly lands on dry lakebed at, California, suffering little damage. 24 August Two separate accidents kill 13 U.S. Airmen, this date.

Nine are killed aboard an Army, 45-2554, c/n 2, 45–2554, near, after a mid-air collision with an Army, 44-86870. The bomber suffers damage to a wingtip but lands safely. In a separate accident, two engaged in the collide in mid-air near, killing two crew on each airlifter. Killed in the C-47s were Maj. Howard, Capt. DeVolentine, and 1st Lt.

Howard was piloting C-47A-80-DL, 43-15116, while Capt. DeVolentine was flying C-47A-90-DL, 43-16036, c/n 20502. 3 September The only to be part of the strike package on both atomic missions over Japan,, 44-27353, ' The Great Artiste', of the 509th Composite Group, deployed to, for polar navigation training, aborts routine training flight due to an engine problem, makes downwind landing, touches down halfway down runway, overruns onto unfinished extension, groundloops to avoid tractor. Structural damage at wing joint so severe that never flies again. Despite historic significance, airframe is scrapped at Goose Bay in September 1949.

4 September A fighter from crashes into a four-family home at 39–29 212th Street,, killing the pilot, 1st Lt. Roger Olsen, USMCR, 25, of, and three civilian women, Mrs.

Helen Raynor, Mrs Alice Cressmer, and Miss Louise Paul. The pilot, a 1943 Pensacola graduate, was on the first day of a two-week reserve training course. The plane impacted one block from the station of the. 15 September The death knell for the trouble-prone French program comes this date when the third (some say first) production machine crashes after the failure of one of the coupled powerplants causes an in-flight fire, killing pilot Henri Koechlin. 'Six days later on 21 September 1948, the Arsenal VB 10 contract was cancelled. At the time of cancellation, four production VB 10 aircraft (including the one that crashed) had flown, six additional airframes had been completed, and a number of airframes were under construction.

All remaining VB 10s (including the first prototype) were scrapped.' 18 September A RAF crashes during an air show at, killing both crew and ten members of the public.

19 September RCAF crashes into a hillside in what is now the Ganaraska Forest, near Kendal Ontario. Flight Lieutenant Leslie Banner was killed while returning to Trenton, Ontario from Niagara Falls, New York.

Missing his turn at Newcastle, due to heavy clouds, he went off course and crashed into the side of Lookout Hill. 20 September First prototype, 45-59479, in a dive test at, California, to test design load factor, suffers engine explosion, tearing off cowling panels that shear several feet from the horizontal stabilizer, aircraft pitches up, and both wings tear off under negative g load. Crew has no ejection seats, and George Krebs and Nick Piccard are killed. 6 October An engine fire causes the crash in, of a, 45-21866, of the 3150th Electronics Squadron,, shortly after take off from, killing 9 of 13 men aboard, including 3 engineers. Four parachuted to safety. 18 October A USAF, 42-72688, c/n 10793, participating in the, crashes near, Germany, killing three crew, Capt.

Vaughn, 1st Lt. Eugene Erickson and Sgt. Richard Winter. 19 October, KE443, 'FD 068', of 703 Squadron, shorebased at,, noses over on landing aboard. Airframe is not repaired and ends up on fire dump at,, surviving until at least mid-1950.

22 October On fifth flight of the second prototype parasite fighter, 45–524, McDonnell test pilot Edwin F. Schoch unhooks from trapeze carried on, 44-84111, named 'Monstro', and for the first time retracts the small fighter's nose hook in flight. But when he extends it to reconnect with the mothership, buffeting over the open nose hook well (previously flown taped closed) causes the Goblin to be too unstable for reconnection. The hook is broken in the attempts, and Schoch belly lands on the dry lake at for the second time.

This was the last flight of the second prototype. 3 November, 44-61999, 'Overexposed', of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division,, USAF, crashes on,, in between and,, while descending through cloud. All 13 crew KWF. It is doubtful they ever saw the ground. The time was estimated from one of the crew members wrist watch. The plane, piloted by Captain L.

Tanner, was on a short flight, carrying mail and the payroll for American service personnel based. The flight was from near Lincoln to Burtonwood near Warrington, a flight of less than an hour. Low cloud hung over much of England, which meant the flight had to be flown on instruments. The crew descended after having flown for the time the crew believed it should have taken them to cross the hill. Unfortunately the aircraft had not quite passed the hills and struck the ground near Higher Shelf Stones, being destroyed by fire. 5 November A, 44-83678 returning to, Florida from, crashes in woods SE of Auxiliary Field 2, Pierce Field, crashing and burning NE of the runway at Eglin main base early Friday. All five on board are KWF, including Lt.

Eley, 43, of, staff judge advocate at Eglin for nearly three years – he was returning from his grandmother's funeral in Portland, Indiana; Maj. Nettles, 29, who lived in but was originally from, group adjutant for the 3203rd Maintenance and Supply section; Capt.

Robert LeMar, 31, Ben's Lake, Eglin AFB, test pilot with the 3203rd; crew chief M/Sgt. Carl LeMieux, 31, of; and Sgt. Bazer, 36, assistant engineer,. Bazer's wife was the Eglin base librarian. 7 November Second prototype, 44-91003, crashes at 1300 hrs.

While returning to, Florida. The number 2 (port inner) engine exploded as the aircraft was returning from a photographic suitability test flight. The pilot was unable to maintain control due to violent buffeting, and he ordered the crew to bail out. Five of the seven crew escaped safely, including pilot Lynn Hendrix, rescued by Eglin crash boats and helicopters. Airframe impacts two miles S of the base, in the.

Palmer, 20, and M/Sgt. Riberdy, 30, who lived at Auxiliary Field 5, but was from Hartford, Connecticut, are KWF. 8 or 11 December (sources differ), BuNo 56502, c/n 10643, returning from the, crashes in the near S of.

One crew of six aboard killed: AMM3 Harry R. 13 December A blade on the starboard rotor of the second prototype Soviet twin-rotor helicopter fails, and the subsequent crash kills the two crew. 28 December The pilot is killed when his, 44-85282, crashes at the village of, Michigan. Papers on the body identify him as Lt. Thomis, of, Kentucky, assigned at, Michigan. 28 December, 41-39350, on 'a routine navigational flight from, Fla.'

, crashes three miles E of, near, Michigan, killing four crew and, possibly, two civilian passengers, picked up at MacDill Field. Armstrong, commander of the Michigan air wing, said that he 'believed' passengers were aboard. Names of victims were not immediately released. 1949 [ ] 4 January.

43-48405, c/n 1, crashes and burns in a night accident, coming down in mountainous terrain about eight miles NE of. The coroner said there are seven fatalities. The flight was believed to be between and. The crash site is near the and highway.

5 January As five U.S. Navy make firing runs on a gunnery target sleeve towed by another aircraft, two fighters collide at 7,000 feet and plunge into the Pacific Ocean off. Both pilots, Ens.

McHugh, of, and Lt. Cecil, of, are feared lost. Later the same date, a, expected to return to at 1150 hrs.

After a routine two hour flight, is declared missing shortly before 1400 hrs. When its fuel would be exhausted. 6 January The pilot of a was feared lost after his fighter went into the sea 20 miles W of. Crewmen of the escort carrier reported seeing the Hellcat hit the water.

7 January A, 45-0543, c/n 35996, of the,, en route to from for a 200-hour inspection, crashes at ~1645 hrs. In bad weather at Stake House Fell,, killing all six on board. KWF are pilot 1st Lt. Wurgel, co-pilot 1st Lt.

Wheaton Jr., engineer Sgt. Watkins, radio operator Cpl. Theis, and passengers Capt. Rathgeber and Pvt.

Investigation showed that a commercial radio signal N of Burtonwood interfered with aircraft's radio compass, giving a false reading. 9 January A falls out of formation during a pass by the spectators at the All-American Air Maneuvers at, Florida, crashes and explodes. 12 January During the, the crash of a, 42-72629, c/n 10734, on approach to, Germany, kills three crew, 1st Lt. Boyd, 1st Lt. Ladd, and T/Sgt. 19 January First flight of test vehicle, from, New Mexico, ends in crash.

3 February The, powered by a engine, the first Soviet aircraft to break Mach 1 (in a shallow dive), is lost in a crash that kills test pilot Oleg V. Authorities select the fighter, also powered by the VK-1, for production. 10 February, 44-34719, out of, South Carolina, piloted by Robert L. Kenyon, crashes at – four killed. 2 March Two Reserve, BuNo. 94202, c/n A-11954, 'WF 9', and BuNo. 94182, 'WF 14', out of, crash into the 9,500 foot level of the south slope of, in Southern.

Wreckage discovered on 6 March. Also this date,, BuNo 97448, 'AB 16', is reported missing since 1430 hrs., last reporting in that it was near. Its wreckage and the body of its dead pilot are found on the island on 5 March.

15 March Second prototype of three twin-tailed fighters, BuNo 122473, lost on test flight over the, out of, Maryland. Test pilot William H. Millar killed. 1 April Tip tank of -based comes off during parade flyover and hits Lewiston Public Works Garage. 20 April Crash of a, 44-85438, c/n 080-1461, kills Col., USAF Reserve, while on take-off from, New Mexico, at 1640 hrs. During cross-country proficiency flight. Coffey, a World War II ace (six victories) during 97 missions in the, and deputy group commander of the,, who had been shot down and evaded capture, had resigned his regular commission to enter politics.

He was elected to the 81st United States Congress (D-Pa.) and was on an Air Force training flight while the House was in recess when he died at age 30. He and fellow pilot had departed Kirtland after refuelling for, California, but due to apparent engine failure on take-off, the fighter never rose above 25 feet, skidded off end of runway, cartwheeled across an arroyo, and broke apart but did not burn. Coffey was killed instantly. He is buried in. The House of Representatives recesses for one day in his honor. 29 April First prototype (of two) of the parasite fighter, 45–523, makes its only flight, piloted by McDonnell test pilot Edwin F. After launching from trapeze suspended below, 44-84111, named 'Monstro', pilot is unable to hook up for retrieval and belly lands on dry lakebed at, California.

After only six total flights by the Goblin, totalling ~2½ hours of flight time, the U.S. Air Force abandons the test program. Both prototypes are preserved in museum collections. 4 May, 46–468, out of crashes into an unfinished house on Fulton Avenue near Duncan Road, a residential neighborhood of near; the plane burst into flames but neither the pilot, 2nd Lt. Andrew Wallace, nor his radar observer, 1st Lt. Bryan Jolley, were killed. In fact, Wallace used a brick from the house to smash the right canopy and rescue Jolley.

20 May A, 48–572, c/n 10207, of the 1227th Air Base Group,, veers off runway during takeoff at primitive Arctic Isachsen airstrip, Isachsen weather station,,, Canada, at 1745 hrs. Despite crew attempts to keep the aircraft from drifting to the left, the port landing gear catches a snow bank, increasing veer, then port propeller strikes snow pack at 90 mph and 2800 rpm, ripping engine from mount and making aircraft uncontrollable. Three crew uninjured but aircraft written off, abandoned on site. Hull used for a shelter for a time.

Wreckage still on site. The C-82 had delivered an engine and parts to repair a stranded, 42-72614, with a failed number 2 engine. The position of the Skymaster had required a downwind takeoff run.

25 May, 44-27299,. Of the,,, suffers fire in number 4 (starboard outer) engine shortly after take-off for routine navigation and radar training mission. Unable to extinguish blaze, crew bails out but navigator's parachute does not open and he is killed – believed that he had struck his head on nosegear operating assembly while departing bomber. B-29 makes two-mile circle, then comes down 35 miles NE of, exploding on impact. 30 May test pilot becomes first British pilot to save his life with an when he bailed out of experimental twin-jet flying wing, TS363, out of, using 'primitive' seat, when an oscillation in pitch set in during a shallow dive from ~5,000 feet. 3 June Sole (Aircraft P) twin-engined jet all-weather interceptor develops severe vibration during 39th test flight, breaks up in mid-air forcing pilot S.

Anokhin to eject. Project abandoned, second prototype never finished. 15 June Sole prototype reconnaissance, VT347, breaks up in the air during its first flight, killing pilot Rodney Dryland. This version is not proceeded with.

11 July A pilot trainee is killed when his strikes a parked at, Florida, upon returning from a period of field carrier landing practice. It approaches on landing, and the port wing strikes a static SNJ in a parking area and the Corsair 'cartwheels' onto its back, killing the pilot.

14 July A, 44-23014, c/n 10058, crashes into a parking lot in Area B of, Ohio. While conducting routine drop testing in Area C of the base, the C-82 attempted an emergency landing in Area B. With its electrical system down and the right engine on fire, the plane landed ~three-quarters down the runway, running off the end of the runway across a grassy area, plowing through a steel fence, and ran over a number of cars in the main parking lot near Highway 4 before flipping onto its back. Firecrews were on the scene immediately. The only person killed was MSgt Lubitz, Flight Test Division, who jumped from the plane just before it hit the fence. The other four crew were only slightly injured and no one on the ground was hurt. 25 July World War II ace, Squadron Leader Robert Allen 'Bob' Kipp, DSO, DFC, (12 October 1919 – 25 July 1949), commanding officer of, is killed while practicing aerobatics in a of the demonstration team.

9 August pilot Lt. 'Pappy' Fruin of loses control of his at 500 mph and 30,000 feet and ejects over, becoming the first American Naval aviator to use an during an actual in-flight emergency. VF-101 was the first Navy unit to receive the type. 12 August Third of three jet-powered flying-boat fighter prototypes, TG271, design specification E.6/44, is written off after hitting a submerged obstruction and sinking in the off,, pilot surviving.

Design not placed in production. Post-August Second of three jet-powered flying-boat fighter prototypes, TG267, design specification E.6/44, crashes into the sea during practice for an air show, killing the pilot. Design not placed in production. 15 September First loss occurs when B-36B 44-92079, of the 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, crashes into during a night 'maximum effort' mission takeoff from, Texas, killing five of 13 crew. Cause attributed to two propellers going into reverse pitch. Wreckage removed from lake and scrapped. 30 September First delta-wing research aircraft, VX784, first flown 6 September 1949 (one source says 4 September), crashes near on test flight out of, killing Avro test pilot Flt.

Cause never established. 3 October The first (of only two) prototypes of the helicopter, 45-22793, crashes due to a control system failure, killing Kellett's chief test pilot, Dave Driskill.

The project was abandoned shortly thereafter. 4 October, BuNo 90505, prototype of the variant, undergoing propeller vibration tests by Grumman in New York, suffers prop failure and crashes on, killing the representative who was aboard in the rear fuselage.

Pilot Mike Ritchie makes a high-speed, 200-foot altitude parachute escape, but lands on top of the wreckage and is hospitalized for many months. 9 October, 43-16062, c/n 20528, of the 6th Rescue Squadron, Air Rescue Service,, based at, fails to gain sufficient airspeed on takeoff from primitive Isachsen airstrip, abandoned Isachsen weather station,,, Canada, at 1800 hrs. Zulu, lifting off twice before landing gear/skis contacted rising terrain and collapsed. Cause was icing and overload conditions. Four crew and six passengers suffer only minor injuries.

Airframe abandoned in place. It is still there.

31 October test program suffers set-back when second prototype (N.12/45), VP113, powered by turboprop, crashes in attempted dead-stick landing after the props seize in flight, test pilot killed. 1 November A, NX26297 flown by a pilot, collides in midair with, a airliner, N88727, on its final approach to. All 55 people on board the die; the P-38 pilot survived with injuries. Bridaux was considered one of Bolivia's most experienced pilots.

Among the dead were Congressman George J. Bates and former Congressman Michael J. DC-4 wreckage comes down on shoreline of the, north of. It was (at the time) the worst plane crash in the history of civil aviation. The P-38 pilot was accused of causing the accident, later tried and cleared of the charges, which now is believed to have been an ATC error. 9 November A on a training flight crash landed south of, after all four engines 'froze up' in flight.

One fatality. 16 November A USAF on a flight from, California, to England via Bermuda goes down at sea when fuel exhausted; of 20 crew aboard two are missing but 18 are rescued on 19 November, 385 miles NE of Bermuda. 22 November First prototype, TX145, on test flight out of the (RAE),, suffers engine flame-out, crash lands. 29 November, VR546, crashes on take-off from Fairey's flight test airfield at,, following violent porpoising at unstick speed. Repairs take three months and test flying does not resume until March 1950. 11 December, 45-11353, of the,, crashes at Reno Air Force Base, Nevada, during a mock dogfight killing Reno native 1st Lt.

Stead (19 March 1922 – 11 December 1949) during training mission. Base is subsequently named in January 1951 in his honor. 22 December USAF, 47–110, c/n 15794, of the, crashes into swamp land on the banks of the ~7 miles above, five minutes after take off at 2112 hrs. From, 4 Miles ENE of the airfield. The bomber was on a training flight to,. All eleven on board KWF. The crash site was less than two miles from, which crosses the river just above Savannah, but it could only be reached by small boats guided by boatmen who knew the river.

The Air Force waited until dawn to send a large crash boat with a score or more men, armed with shovels and ropes, to try to remove the bodies. They had to transfer to small, flat-bottomed swamp boats to get to the wreckage. Harrison, public information officer, said the wreckage would cover a football field. Salvage workers sank up to their armpits in the mire. The men aboard the plane were identified as: Capt.

Scaringen, pilot, and aircraft commander,; Capt. Walker, pilot,; Lt. Rogers Hornsby, Jr., 29, son of of baseball fame; 1st Lt. Beckman, bombardier,; Capt. Colandro, radar navigator,; 1st Lt. Johnson, Jr., flight engineer,; T/Sgt.

Hughes, flight engineer,; S/Sgt. Cunningham, radio operator and gunner,; S/Sgt. Gregg, gunner,; S/Sgt. Myers, gunner,; and S/Sgt. Bristol, gunner,. See also [ ] Notes [ ].