ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 56363
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| Date: | Wednesday 21 November 1979 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vought TA-7C Corsair II |
| Owner/operator: | US Navy |
| Registration: | 156748 |
| MSN: | XE-08 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | NAS China Lake, CA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed while simulating cose air support for troops in field training at Fort Irwin.
Plane suffered a catastrophic engine failure and exploded in mid-air, so fast that the wing-tips blew off and the plane inverted scattering wreckage and debris over a mile with the engine continuing another several hundred feet beyond the debris field. This incident was significant as it was determined that the combustion wall area of the TF-30A engine had worn thin and suffered complete material failure leading to the explosion...thus the TF-30 "B" model engine was born.
Killed were Navy Lt.Cmdr Peter Leum and Ensign Steven D. Herning.
Sources:
www.chinalakealumni.org/shipmates
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Sep-2015 16:23 | RodgerAsai | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Sep-2015 07:10 | RodgerAsai | Updated [Narrative] |
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