Serial | 0E-015 | |||||||||||||||
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Model | TA-7C Corsair II | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | A-7C mod to TA-7C; w/o 21.11.1979 crashed while simulating close air support for troops in field training at Fort Irwin, CA; a/c suffered a catastrophic engine failure & exploded in mid-air, so fast that the wing-tips blew off & the plane inverted, scattering wreckage over a mile with the engine continuing another several hundred feet beyond the debris field (with VX-5); | |||||||||||||||
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