Mishaps.A TAV-8B Harrier II of Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 crashed aboard MCAS McCune-Albright syndrome (MCAS) A genetic syndrome characterized in girls by the development of ovarian cysts and puberty before the age of 8, together with abnormalities of bone structure and skin pigmentation. Mentioned in: Ovarian Cysts Cherry Point, N.C., on 3 February. Both aviators were killed. On 21 February, a T-45A Goshawk goshawk: see hawk. goshawk Any of the more powerful accipiters (hawks in the genus Accipiter), primarily short-winged, forest-dwelling bird catchers. Best known is the northern goshawk, which reaches about 2 ft (60 cm) in length with a 4.3-ft (1. of Training Squadron 22 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The two instructor pilots on board, who were observing training flights on Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN (Card Verification Number) See CSC. 69), were killed. The aircrew of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 9 F/A-18C was not injured when their Hornet was damaged by a birdstrike and suffered an engine fire near China Lake, Calif., on 1 March. On 19 March, an enlisted Sailor was killed in a flight deck accident involving an SH-60B Seahawk of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Light 49 aboard Thach (FFG FFG Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (German: Austrian research promotion agency) FFG Flash Flood Guidance FFG Guided Missile Frigate FFG Fall from Grace (band) FFG Fast Frigates FFG Freeware Flight Group 43) in the Pacific Ocean. An F/A-18C Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron 37 accidentally dropped ordnance on a forward air controller position at a firing range in Kuwait during a live-fire exercise on 23 March. Six people on the ground were killed, and five injured. An EP-3E Aries II The Lockheed EP-3E ARIES II is the signals reconnaissance version of the P-3C Orion, operated by the United States Navy. There are 11 EP-3Es in the Navy's inventory, the last of which was delivered in 1997. of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 was damaged in a midair collision with a Chinese F-8 fighter over the South China Sea on 31 March. The 24 crew members were not injured (see pp. 6-7). An F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron 101 was damaged but the aircrew uninjured following a wheels-up landing aboard Fentress Field, Va., on 9 April. |
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