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As of January 2024, 131 USAF F-15 aircraft had been destroyed in mishaps, with 59 fatalities. This was a lifetime average of 2.93 aircraft destroyed per year, or 1.99 aircraft destroyed per 100,000 flight hours.
5 cze 2024 · An Air Force investigation said a pilot, maintainers and miscommunication with air traffic controllers were to blame for an F-15D crash in May 2023.
23 lis 2020 · An F-15C pilot’s fixation on an intercept during training, and failure to focus on the aircraft’s instruments as he encountered adverse weather, caused the fatal June 15 crash in the North Sea near the United Kingdom, U.S. Air Forces in Europe announced Nov. 23.
BOARD PRESIDENT: COLONEL TAYLOR T. FERRELL. On 15 May 2023, at 1500 local time (L), an F-15D, tail number (T/N) 84-0046, assigned to the 173d Fighter Wing (FW), Kingsley Field, Air National Guard Base (ANGB), Klamath Falls, Oregon, crashed after landing on Runway 14 (RWY) at Kingsley Field.
6 cze 2024 · The pilot declared an in-flight emergency with Seattle Center Air Traffic Control (SCATC) and requested to proceed directly to Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base (ANGB). The F-15D’s wing did a battle damage check and found hydraulic fluid leaking behind the right landing gear door.
25 lis 2020 · Lt Kenneth Allen, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, was killed when the F-15C Eagle crashed off the East Yorkshire coast on 15 June. The 27-year-old was on a training...
5 cze 2024 · An F-15D Eagle pilot’s decision not to engage the aircraft’s emergency brake system during a hydraulic failure caused the jet to skid off a runway and crash into an irrigation canal at...
