5 May 1969 – A USAF North American F-100D-70-NA Super Sabre, #56-3214, one of two Super Sabres from the 452nd TFS/81st TFW out of RAF Lakenheath, was on a gunnery mission over Holbeach Range, Cambs., UK. The plane suffered engine failure, forcing pilot Capt. R.E. Riggs to eject. The jet fighter impacted into farmland, missing
19 February 1967 – Here’s Darrel’s story… I USED TO DO THAT – A FIGHTER PILOT’S STORY by Darrel B. Couch (Pages 181-184 from my book) My Combat Ejection or Nylon Let Down (First written April 2005 for an NMUSAF research project) Purple Heart (PH): 614 Tactical Fighter Squadron; F-100D; No tail number; Phan Rang AB, […]
18 February 1967 – The second crash of a Blue Angels demonstration team jet in three weeks kills the newest team member, U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ronald F. Thomsen, 28, when his Grumman F-11A Tiger impacted just 250 yards from the site of the previous accident on 1 February 1967. Thomsen was killed only four
17 February 1968 – LTC B.M. Fields and CAPT W.D. Canup were serving with the 614TFS out of Phan Rang AB, Vietnam. On that day Fields and Canup were on a mission in F-100F #563959 to find enemy troops over SVN. The F-100F was hit by gunfire 5 miles SW of Can Tho City, and