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| Date: | Tuesday 14 January 1992 |
| Time: | 16:12 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor |
| Owner/operator: | TW-4, US Navy |
| Registration: | 161812 |
| MSN: | GL-207 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near NAS Corpus Christi, Texas -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Corpus Christi NAS, TX (KNGP) |
Crashed near NAS Corpus Christi, Texas on January 14, 1992 after colliding with an F-14A. Inexperienced T-34C crew (Instructor/Student) volunteered to perform gear check without proper knowledge of what safe nose gear should look like, consideration of F-14A’s wake turbulence effect on T-34C, or conducting landing gear check at higher altitude (rather than 2,000’) to allow emergency egress (bail out). The T-34C a light trainer (3,000 lb) was not suited to deal with wingtip vortices generated by the heavier combat aircraft (F-14 weighing in at 40,000 lb empty). Sadly the can-do attitude of the ill prepared T-34C crew resulted in tragedy while the F-14 landed without incident.
Sources:
1. http://www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries21.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Sep-2010 14:30 | ASN Archive | |
| 28-Aug-2014 00:03 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 25-May-2025 07:39 | SheilaJohns | Updated [Time, ] |
| 15-Aug-2025 18:03 | EchoMike | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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