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An F-16CM pilot was killed on Tuesday in the latest in a string of recent Air Force crashes. The plane went down about 11:30 p.m. while conducting a training mission at Shaw Air Force Base ...
Air Force 1st Lt. David Schmitz has been identified as the 77th Fighter Squadron pilot who was killed in an F-16CM crash on Tuesday during a training mission near Shaw Air Force Base in South ...
An Air Force F-16CM Fighting Falcon, like the ones seen here at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., has crashed, killing the pilot. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Maldonado) An Air ...
A US Air Force F-16CM fighter jet crashed at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina late Tuesday night during a routine training flight. The pilot, who is not yet being identified as the service ...
The accident at Shaw Air Force Base late Tuesday night is the fourth involving a U.S. fighter jet since May. “The pilot of the F-16CM that crashed at approximately 2330 on June 30, 2020 ...
SUMTER, S.C. (WIS) - Shaw Air Force Base has identified the pilot of the U.S. Air Force F-16CM Fighting Falcon who died in a crash late Tuesday night. Officials say the pilot was 32-year-old 1st Lt.
The US Air Force concluded in an accident investigation report that a fatal Lockheed Martin F-16CM Thunderbird crash on 4 April was the result of the pilot suffering loss of consciousness ...
In a recent article I calculated that the average USAF F-16CM pilot was only getting 4.9 hours a month based on data from 2020. That’s only 58.8 hours a year, well below NATO’s target of 180 ...
SABCA ensures the Depot-Level MRO of the USAF F-16 operated in the European theatre. Another shot of the first F-16CM in Have Glass V paint scheme arriving at Aviano AB from Charleroi on Jun. 30 ...
South Korea also hosts the USAF's 8th Fighter Wing (FW) "Wolf Pack," based at Kunsan Air Base, whose 80th FS and 35th FS fly the F-16CM Block 40. Osan's 51st FW also oversees the 36th FS which ...
26. 8) United States Air Force Aircraft Accident Investigation Board Report F-16CM, T/N 94-0043 Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, 30 June 2020, p. 27. 9) United States Air Force ...