Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defenses recently undertaken by the Bosnian Serbs that had escaped the notice of NATO intelligence. Because it was launched from directly below, the SA-6 was able to hurtle up on the "blind spot" in the underbelly of the F-16's defensive pod, blasting into O'Grady's aircraft with barely 20 seconds' warning and cutting it in half. "We think this was the first time the Serbs fired an SA-6," said an Air Force official. "They waited until just the right moment, and they ambushed...
...NATO planes flying over the region finally confirm that they were getting more extensive transmissions from what was thought to be O'Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes began swarming over the area. Other planes with special infrared scanners...
Because his training ended only two months before V-E Day and just six months before Japan's surrender, Hiestand did not see combat directly. He served as an assistant supply officers in the Pacific on a CVE III aircraft carrier dubbed the Vella Gulf...
...missile-tracking plane crashed after crewmen's wives climbed into both pilots' seats. They were encouraged by the Air Force to accompany their husbands on "spousal-orientation flights." "The wives were being allowed to sit in both pilots' seats, and one apparently maneuvered the controls, sending the aircraft out of control," Diehl says. From an altitude of 29,000 feet, the plane spiraled at 400 miles an hour for about 90 seconds before it hit a barley field. The last voice heard via radio was a woman's. "The [investigation] board decided they would report that one pilot seat...
...Force isn't the only service with embarrassing accidents, Diehl notes. During a 1989 flight by two Navy F-14s, the two crewmen aboard a Tomcat "removed their flight suits, helmets and oxygen masks in an apparent attempt to 'moon' the crew of the other aircraft. Unfortunately, this 'college-boy' prank proved fatal when they passed out" and plummeted into the Arizona desert...