List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1975–1979)
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This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.
Aircraft terminology
Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.
1975
2 January
U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A-70-GR Tomcat, BuNo 158982, 'NK107', of VF-1, the first of the Pacific Fleet F-14 squadrons to form, deployed aboard USS Enterprise, crashes into the sea off Cubi Point after an inflight engine explosion. Both crew successfully eject. This is one of two squadron losses during the 1974–75 deployment that signalled the fan-blade containment problems which plagued early versions of the TF30 turbofan.
9 January
A USAF Convair T-29D-CO, 52-5826, c/n 52–25, returning to Langley AFB, Virginia, from Key Field, Meridian, Mississippi, with seven Air Force personnel on board, suffers mid-air collision at 1836 hrs. with a Cessna 150H, N50430, of Cavalier Flyers, with two U.S. Navy personnel on board, 4.1 miles (6.5 km) W of Newport News, Virginia, the wreckage of both aircraft coming down in the James River. A Langley AFB spokesman said that Army salvage workers, aided by local authorities, recovered wreckage and bodies from the river throughout the following weekend.
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