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One year after the death of an instructor pilot at Sheppard Air Force Base, the United States Air Force Headquarters Air Education and Training Command officials released an incident report on ...
Captain Robertson’s death was the result of an ejection seat being activated during ground operations in one of the T-6a ...
The Air Force has released its report on an aircraft accident at Sheppard Air Force Base that resulted in the death of an ...
An Air Force report found that Capt. John Robertson's death on May 13, 2024 likely came from not being properly strapped into ...
Other ejection seats like Collins Aerospace's ACES 2 on the F-15 or the ACES 5 on the F-22 save lives just like the US16E, but they lack the ability to auto-eject, making the F-35's ejection ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the turboprop aircraft was still on the ground at a Texas military base, the Air Force said Tuesday.
Investigators identified ejection seat failure as a partial cause of an F-16 crash that killed 1st Lt. David Schmitz, 32, in June 2020.