ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 46511
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 October 1994 |
| Time: | 09:59 |
| Type: |  General Dynamics F-16CJ Fighting Falcon |
| Owner/operator: | 4th TFSqn /388th TFWg USAF |
| Registration: | 90-0814 |
| MSN: | CC-14 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Bonneville Salt Flats, 4 nm NE of Wendover, Tooele County, Utah -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hill AFB, Utah (HIF/KHIF) |
| Wendover Airport (ENV/KENV) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
According to the following extract of the summary of the official USAF inquiry into the incident:
"Four F-16CJ aircraft, Tartan 1, Tartan 2, (the accident aircraft piloted by Captain Miguel F. Torrealday), and Tartans 3 and 4 took off at 09:27 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) (1527 Zulu) on a training mission to the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR).
The flight flew at medium altitude until inside the limits of the UTTR where they joined their planned low level route. At 0956 MDT, following their first attack on Craners Gunnery Range and while setting up for a subsequent attack, the pilot of Tartan 2 felt several violent bangs and heard what he described as a grinding, growling, metal on metal sound. Simultaneously, he experienced a low altitude engine failure. The pilot called "knock it off", advised lead of his engine failure, began a zoom manoeuvre (rapid climb), jettisoned his centre line fuel tank over the range, turned toward Wendover Airfield, Utah, (an emergency landing field) and tried to restart his engine.
After three unsuccessful air start attempts in the Secondary Engine Control (SEC) mode and while passing through what he thought was minimum ejection altitude, he applied maximum back stick to zoom the aircraft and successfully ejected at approximately 0959 MDT. The aircraft impacted the ground on public land near the Bonneville Salt Flats and was totally destroyed
This land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and is in Box Elder County, 4 Nautical Miles North East of Wendover UT, or 244 degrees/95 Nautical Miles from Hill AFB. The pilot was uninjured and after 4-5 minutes was joined by the Chief of Police, Wendover, Utah.
As he was uninjured, the pilot waited for a rescue helicopter dispatched from Hill AFB by the Supervisor of Flying (SOF). Captain Torrealday was examined on-scene by a flight surgeon and a Pararescue Specialist (PJ) and taken, via 545th Test Group UH-1H Huey Helicopter, to the Hill AFB Hospital"
Sources:
1. http://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-16/airframe-profile/3186/
2. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1990.html
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20170218120105/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/F-16/USAF/f_16_USAF_90s.htm
4. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0302/ML030240234.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendover_Airport
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Nov-2008 10:35 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Nov-2013 22:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Nov-2013 22:24 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Mar-2021 22:10 | Nepa | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Operator] |
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