List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1960–1974)
The items in this list are grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more exhaustive lists, see the , the , or the . 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, exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.1960
;4 January;25 February
;26 February
;5 March
;5 March
;12 March
;18 March
;4 April
;13–14 April
;15 April
;18 April
;1 May
;8 June
;27 June
;29 June
;1 July
;6 July
;7 July
;14 July
;19 July
;27 July
;12 August
;6 September
;8 September :USAF Boeing WB-50D Superfortress crashes and burns in mountains six miles E of Ishikawa, Japan, early Thursday, killing at least nine of eleven on board instantly. Townspeople who hear the weather plane crash are foiled at rescue attempts by searing heat. Nine charred bodies are pulled from the wreckage. The plane, on a routine weather mission, had been aloft from Yokota Air Base for about an hour. B-50D-105-BO, 48-122, converted to WB-50D. Crashed with 56th WRS.
;22 September
;25 October
;17 November
;3 December
;11 Decdember
;17 December
;22 December
1961
;4 January;11 January
;12 January
;19 January
;24 January
;26 Jan
;5 March
;10 March
;13 March
;14 March
;15 March
;17 March
;19 March
;23 March
;30 March
;7 April
;11 April
;18 May
;24 May
;25 May
;4 June
;13 June
;16 June
;July
;10 July :Supermarine Scimitar F.1, XD269, goes over the port side of HMS Victorious after a brake failure, this date.
;29 August: Six people in an aerial tramway car plummet to their deaths when an Armée de l'Air Republic F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighter accidentally strikes and severs the cable. The car, with a German family of four and an Italian father and son, was returning from the Alpine peak of Aiguille du Midi to Chamonix. The upward traveling cable was undamaged, but 81 tourists were stranded for hours until they could be rescued.
;27 September
;21 October
;25 October
;1 December: A U.S. Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabre of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 107th Tactical Fighter Group, New York Air National Guard, departs Niagara Falls Air Force Base, New York, on a training flight to Erie, Pennsylvania, but pilot Lt. Edward Metlot, of New York City, is informed by his wingman that his plane is on fire. He steers the fighter towards the Niagara River Gorge to avoid populated areas, ejecting at the last moment, the plane narrowly missing forty workmen on the Queenston-Lewiston Steel Arch Bridge. He lands along the American shoreline, the jet impacting on the riverbank and exploding below Niagara Falls.
;3 December :A USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrain departs Aviano Air Base, Italy, on a routine practice flight, and less than a half hour later crashes into a 4,000-foot fog-shrouded Alpine mountain, killing all four crew. The Associated Press reports from Udine, Italy, that the plane was a mere 15 feet short of clearing the peak. Rescue teams working their way up the mountainside are guided by the flaming wreckage.
;12 December
;14 December
1962
;5 January;16 January
;4 February
;1 March
;21 April :Two residents are killed when a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger participating in the opening of the Century 21 Exposition, Seattle, Washington, suffers engine flame out and the pilot ejects. The fighter strikes homes north of the city. It was one of ten from the 64th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Paine Field that did a flypast of the fairgrounds.
;15 May
;17 May
;24 May
;3 June
;5 June
;19 June
;19 June
;22 July
;25 July
;10 August
;28 August
;10 September
;22 September
;15 October
;23 October
;27 October
;27 October
;30 October
;9 November
;11 November
;22 November
;4 December
;20 December
;26 December
1963
;24 January;30 January
;31 January :Sikorsky HSS-1N Seabat, 140 and 145, both from 8 Squadron of the Royal Netherlands Navy, both ditch near Gibraltar and are lost.
;1 February
;20 March
;27 March
;24 May
;16 June
;26 June
;7 July
;15 July
;24 July
;3 August
;18 August
;19 August
;19 August
;28 August
;5 September :A North American AF-1E Fury, BuNo 143560, of VF-725, Naval Reserve, based at NAS Glenview, Illinois, suffers engine failure, pilot Lt. Don J. "Skip" Mellem ejects through canopy and survives. Fighter strikes front of home in Northbrook, just off the base, woman escapes out the backdoor, survives.
;14 September
;22 September
;2 October
;10 November
;20 November
;10 December
1964
;2 January;4 January
;6 January
;10 January
to investigate structural failures, still flying after its vertical stabilizer sheared off in severe turbulence on 10 January 1964. The aircraft landed safely.
;10 January
;13 January
;22 January
;28 January
;11 February
;March
;3 March
;9 March
;15 March
;23 March
;1 April
;5 April
;9 May
;11 May
;12 May :"Ten navy flyers escaped today when their patrol plane was forced to ditch in the Sea of Japan off Oki Island. A Japanese ship picked up all ten."
;26 May
;5 June : U.S. Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, BuNo 149997, of VA-86, assigned at NAS Oceana, Virginia, goes down in the Chesapeake Bay just west of the Tangier Island Navy target range. Pilot A. A. Less ejects and is picked up uninjured by a crash boat and conveyed to Patuxent River Naval Hospital, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, for a routine examination. Less lives with his family in Virginia Beach, Virginia. VA-86 had begun operating the A-4E model on 28 April 1964.
;10 June
;9 July
;15 July
;12 August
;14 August
;25 August :”A T-29 transport plane landed short of the Offutt Air Force Base runway during the thunderstorm Tuesday night and was damaged extensively. None of the personnel was injured. The plane was returning from a training mission when it clipped a high-voltage power line southeast of the runway, struck a railroad track and settled on the southeast-northwest runway. A five-mile area was blacked out before the power-line damage was repaired.”
;14 September
;21 September
;14 October
;20 October
;31 October
;31 October
;11 November :French Aéronavale Lockheed P2V-6M Neptune, 134663, c/n 6060, hits a hill and bursts into flames while circling to land at Heraklion Airport, Heraklion, Crete. Nine are killed and four seriously injured. "A French embassy spokesman in Athens said the twin-engine plane, coming from France, carried naval officers on a training flight. They were scheduled to remain in Iraklion until Monday for inauguration ceremonies in which a street is to be named after a French war hero who died in the defense of Crete in World War II."
;27 November
;2 December
;5 December
;8 December
1965
;16 January;16 January
;26 February
;19 March
;21 March
;1 April
;3 April
;9 April :Four McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom IIs of VF-96, CVW-9, launch on a BARCAP mission from USS Ranger, but the leader of the second element, Lt. Cdr. William Greer, in F-4B-16-MC, BuNo 151425, loses an engine on launch and the fighter bellyflops into the sea, both crew ejecting. This was VF-96's first loss of the war.
;27 April
;4 May
;16 May
;4 June
;11 June
;18 June
;18 June
;25 June
;6 July
;11 July
;10 August
;10 August
;17 August
;24 August
;25 August
;30 August :Third pre-production aircraft, MiG Ye-155R-5, is lost during its acceptance flight out of the Gorkii aircraft factory, injuring test pilot L. I. Minenko.
;22 September
;13 October :Colonel Gerhard Barkhorn of the West German Air Force, assigned to Erprobungskommando with the Tripartite Evaluation Squadron, crash lands Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1, XS689, '9', at RAF West Raynham, UK, when he apparently cut thrust one meter above ground, wiping out the undercarriage. A Luftwaffe experten with 301 kills, he is said to have commented, "Drei hundert und zwei !" as he was helped from the jet. Repaired, the airframe was sent to the United States as XV-6A 64-18623 and NASA 521 and is preserved at the Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia.
;19 October
;5 December
;12 December
;28 December
1966
;3 January;8 January
;17 January
;17 January
;17 January
;25 January
;28 February
;6 March:The crash of a Grumman S-2 Tracker moments after take-off from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, kills all four U.S. Navy crew on board. A military spokesman said that the twin-engined anti-submarine warfare plane crashed and burned "after climbing to some 100-feet. Wreckage was spread over a wide area about one mile south of the base." One crew member attempted to eject, and his seat and parachute were found a few yards from the wreckage. The other three crew were in the wreckage when rescue units arrived. Identity of the victims was being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
;23 March
;5 April
;6 April
;13 April
;6 May
;4 July :A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion, flying from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, to Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, disappears from Chicago radar at 1444 hrs., and plunges into a rural wooded area near Battle Creek, Michigan, killing all four on board. The dead are identified as Lt. William E. Xiques, Staten Island, New York; Lt. John Patrick Fitzmaurice III, Waterbury, Connecticut; Aviation Machinist's Mate 2/c Charles J. Lurvey, Meriden, Connecticut; and Aviation Machinist's Mate 3/c Larry W. Battsen, Santa Clara, California. The impact digs a trench 12 to 15 feet deep and 50 to 75 feet long, and the explosion scatters small parts over three miles away which rain down for several minutes. The Orion was due to pick up eight officers and enlisted men at NAS Glenview at 1600 hrs. and fly them to Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California.
;8 June
;18 July
;22 July
;30 July
;8 August: First prototype of U.S. Navy Bell X-22, 1520, P-1, suffers a forced landing four miles from Niagara Falls Airport, New York, during its 15th flight, with only 3.2 hours of flight time, due to failure of a propeller control, described by the test pilot, Stanley Kakol, as the only non-redundant component in the power chain. Two crew survive. Airframe stripped of components to make second prototype flight capable and fuselage used as a simulator for some time before being scrapped.
;22 August
;2 September
;7 September
;5 October
;8 October
;12 October
;12 October
;17 October
;26 October
;29 October
;11 November
;11 November
;28 November
;7 December
1967
;5 January;5 January
;7 January
;9 January :While operating off of the Philippines, a Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King helicopter crashes on the flight deck of USS Bennington during take-off. Crew members receive only minor injuries.
;10 January
;11 January : During night operations off of the Philippines, a Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King, assigned to USS Bennington, strikes the water and sinks at sea. The following casualties were received aboard: LT William L. Finkenhagen, USNR, and AX2 Roberto B. Reed, USN, who were transferred to Subic Bay for further care; LT Charles B. Stella, USNR, and RD1 William T. Smith, USN, who were treated and retained aboard. AX3 Clayton Kemp, USN, and AX3 Wayne C. Reinecke, USN, were declared dead after an extensive air-sea search following the accident.
;19 January :First General Dynamics F-111 accident occurs when pre-production F-111A, 63-9774, c/n A1-09, lands short of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California, due an improper wing sweep setting. The crew of two is uninjured, but when the pilot, Maj. Herbert F. Brightwell, goes around to unfasten the WSO, Col. Donovan I. McCance, he stands in a pool of spilled JP-4 fuel which subsequently ignites, killing him.
;27 January
;1 February
;18 February
;21 February
;5 March
;23 March
;27 March
;5 April
;13 April
;21 April
;24 April
;25 April
;10 May
;10 May
;28 May
;8 July
;29 July
;2 August
artillery, 3 August 1967. Photo by Hiromichi Mine.
;3 August
;21 September
;27 September
;5 October
;9 October
;21 October
;14 November
;14 November
;15 November
;8 December
1968
;2 January;11 January
;21 January
;7 February
;11 February
;18 February
;9 March
;27 March
;11 April
;May
;6 May
;12 May
;25 May
;31 May
;31 May
;4 June
;13 June
;7 July
;19 August
;11 September
;23 September
;24 September
;10 October
;11 October
;1 November
;8 December
;9 December
;13 December
1969
;13 January;14 January
and a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II are consumed in the fire on the fantail, 14 January 1969.
;29 January
;11 February
;19 February
;20 February
;27 February :The night-time take-off crash of a Beechcraft U-8D Seminole at Milan, Italy, kills Major General John S. Hughes, 52, of Fort Worth, Texas, commander of all U.S. Army troops in northern Italy. He had assumed command of the United States southern Europe task force in May 1968. Also killed was pilot Major Edward Haislop, 32, of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Co-pilot Major Gordon Cooper, 34, also of Parkersburg, and Spc. 5/C Wallace Runyan, 21, originally of Fairbury, Illinois, but now residing in Milan, were reported in critical condition in a Milan clinic with fractures and burns. The U-8D apparently lost power on its engines as it lifted off and crashed into a huge advertising sign along a street just 300 yards from the airport. The airframe burned.
;12 March
;14 March
;7 April
;11 April
;15 April
;5 May
;18 May
;23 May
;29 May
;5 June
;23 June
;18 September
;20 September
;9 October
;25 October
;16 December
;18 December
;22 December
;22 December
1970
;10 January;2 February
;26 March
;3 April
;16 April
;18 April :USMC Major General Edwin B. Wheeler, members of his staff, and Colonel Edward A. Wilcox, on an inspection of a search and destroy operation, are involved in a helicopter crash on approach to a jungle landing zone ~15 miles southwest of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Wheeler suffers a broken leg.
;28 April
;4 May :A Convair T-29, Visco 57, departs Hamilton Air Force Base, California, at ~0800 hrs with four crew members and 10 passengers. en route to Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington, on a hazy but otherwise clear morning. Just minutes after takeoff, it clips a ridge SE of Petaluma, crashes and burns, killing 13 of those on board.
;6 May
;10 May
;11 May
;12 May
;22 May
;24 May
;27 May
;June
;6 June
;11 June
;17 June
on the deck of the circa 29 July 1970. Photo by Photographers Mate Keith Guthrie of Palatka, Florida. Both pilot and Skyhawk recovered. Navy photo NH-90350
;27 June
;18 July
;24 July
;Circa 29 July
;30 July
;3 August: A Lockheed P-3A-55-LO Orion, BuNo 152159, c/n 185-5129, 'ZE-06', of VP-17, NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, explodes in flight after takeoff from Nellis AFB, Nevada, crashing near Searchlight, Nevada, killing all ten aboard. The cause of the accident was never determined.
;5 August
;25 August
;1 September
;8 September
;29 October : The crash of a U.S. Army Beechcraft U-8F Seminole, 62-3865, c/n LF.63, at Tri-State Airport, Kenova, West Virginia, kills General Edwin H. Burba, two warrant officers, and seriously injures Burba's aide. Burba was en route to Morehead, Kentucky, and Morehead State University, to participate in ceremonies honoring that institution's Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Program and to present the Outstanding Service Civilian Award, the Army's highest civilian award, to his friend and the school's president, Dr. Adron Doran. Traffic controllers at the southwestern West Virginia airport, located near the Ohio and Kentucky borders, said that one of the co-pilots radioed that they had an engine out and were attempting to land on instruments. Moments later the twin-engined aircraft crashed into trees in heavy rain and fog, coming down three-quarters of a mile west of the airport's main runway. Burba, 58, died in the accident as did CW2 Paul R. Burt and CW3 Maynard R. Reisinger. Aide Capt. James B. Bickerton was listed in critical condition in hospital where he was admitted to surgery. "General Burba became deputy commander of the First Army in 1968. He served in Africa and Europe during World War II and was wounded in Tunisia in 1943. He served twice in Korea. His medals include the Silver Star, Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart." Kelly Pool at Fort George Meade, Maryland, was renamed Burba Lake in his honor during a dedication ceremony on Memorial Day, 31 May 1971. Crash cause was determined to be due to a fatal design flaw in the fuel cross-feed system.
;11 November
;15 November
;16 November
;24 November
;15 December
;15 December
;30 December
1971
;7 January;8 January: General Dynamics FB-111A, 68-0283, c/n B1-55, of the 340th Bombardment Group, Carswell AFB, Texas, on its acceptance test flight from the General Dynamics Plant in Fort Worth, crashes three miles NE of Mandeville, Louisiana, killing both crew, Lt. Col. Bruce D. Stocks, 38, and Maj. Billy C. Gentry, 36. Over 125 aircraft including Air Force planes from Carswell and Sheppard Air Force Bases, of the Civil Air Patrol and the Coast Guard logged more than 275 flight hours in the search by 11 January. The search was expanded into Louisiana and Mississippi on 13 January. "We suspect the plane may have traveled into the areas of Louisiana, southern Mississippi and East Texas," said Capt. Tom Lauterback, information officer at Carswell AFB, on Wednesday 13 January. Escape module with crew's remains not found until 2 February, three weeks after the loss. A parachute was found hanging from a nearby tree, but it did not deploy in time to save the airmen. An FB-111A escape module displayed at the Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska, is said to be from this accident.
;21 January : An Armee de l'Air Nord 262A-34, 44/F-RBOA, c/n 44, on a flight from Paris to the isotope separation plant at Pierrelatte, France, crashed on a snow-covered peak in Southern France in a blizzard, killing all 21 on board including 13 of the nation's top experts on nuclear weapons and atomic production. They were on their way for a meeting of the scientists to coordinate projects of the Atomic Energy Commission and the armed forces. A helicopter pilot who flew over the scene said that only the tail was intact and that no one could have survived the crash. Icing was initially speculated as a possible cause. "The crew had been cleared by Marseilles ACC at FL 80 to the Montelimar VOR and FL50 afterwards. FL80 was the minimum safe altitude level between CMF and MTL. Controllers at the time considered it possible that the pilot might have retained the FL50 as the final clearance and had disregarded the initial FL80 instruction." Among the victims were Rear Adm. Robert Landrin, 55, deputy chief of staff of the armed forces, and Jacques Mabile, production director of the AEC and the man credited with developing France's uranium resources. Others included Gen. Edouard Billion, 54, head of nuclear affairs in the arms division of the Defense Ministry; Gen. Jean-Marc Pineau, 48, chief of planning for the chiefs of staff and three of his senior officers: Jean la Bussiere, AEC financial director; Hubert de la Boylaye, head of the commission's radiological safety division, and Georges Tirole, AEC deputy director for military applications. One source identified the crash site as Gerbier du Jonc peak while another states that the twin-engine turboprop struck Suc de Pradou, a 1342 m high mountain and came to rest 200 m below the summit.
;29 January
;19 February
;26 February
;15 April
;23 April
;6 June
;13 June
;15 June
;30 June
;8 July :"Israel's military command said that 10 Israeli soldiers are missing and presumed killed in the crash of a helicopter in the Mediterranean off the Sinai coast. The announcement said the helicopter went down Thursday afternoon. It was the heaviest reported loss of life involving Israeli troops since the Arab-Israeli cease-fire began last Aug.8. There was no explanation for the crash off the occupied Sinai tour of El Arish, but an Israeli spokesman ruled out any Arab involvement. Thursday was a perfect flying day in Israel, with clear skies and no clouds. Israeli planes and rescue ships searched the area but found neither wreckage nor survivors. The military command said a committee had been set up to investigate the crash." The Sikorsky CH-53 Yas'ur crashed into the sea off the Sinai coast, killing 10 soldiers and officers as they returned to Israel following a mission.
;12 July
;27 July
;30 July
;18 August
;20 August : A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked this date before the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets. On regaining consciousness in mid-flight, Minhas struggled for flight control as well as relaying the news of his hijack to the PAF base. In the end of the ensuing struggle he succeeded to crash his aircraft into the ground near Thatta on seeing no way to prevent the hijack and the defection. He was posthumously awarded Pakistan's highest military award Nishan-e-Haider for his act of bravery. Matiur Rahman was awarded Bangladesh's highest military award, Bir Sreshtho, for his attempt to defect to join the civil war in East Pakistan.
;11 September
;28 September
;29 September
;12 October
;19 October
;29 October
;November
;7 November
;15 November
;16 November :Republic F-84F-25-GK Thunderstreak, 51-9371, of the 170th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 183d Tactical Fighter Group, Illinois Air National Guard, loses a wing during exercises at the Hardwood Air-to-Ground Weapons Range near Finley, Wisconsin, under the control of Volk Field Air National Guard Base, Wisconsin, caused by the failure of the "milkbone" joining bolt in the main wing, weakened by years of flying. Pilot killed. "The Guard still had 56 F-84Fs in November 1971 when serious accident occurred due to structural corrosion. The 183rd Tactical Fighter Group, Springfield, Ill., the only ANG unit still equipped with F-84Fs, was programmed for F-4C aircraft, and over 90 percent of the grounded F-84Fs showed signs of stress corrosion. Hence no repairs were made. In February 1972, however, the Air Force used two ANG F-84Fs in developing repair procedures that would be offered to the many allied nations using the elderly aircraft." Some 25–30 of the 183d Thunderstreaks were ferried to Eglin AFB, Florida in February 1972, for use as targets on the test ranges although one airframe was later retrieved for the infant Air Force Armament Museum.
;18 November
1972
;18 January;19 February
;14 March
;23 March
;31 March
;2 April
;8 April
;14 April
;15 April
;10 May
;4 June
;18 June
;20 July
;28 August
;29 August
;11 September
;10 October
;13 October
;16 October
;19 October
;30 October
;24 November
;5 December
1973
;22 January:Convair F-102A-75-CO Delta Dagger, 56-1321, of the 57th FIS, crashes into the ocean about 30 km from Keflavik, Iceland. This brought an end to 58 months of accident free flying for the 57th. There are no other details regarding this accident at this editing.;7 February
;8 March
;8 March : Three F-4 Phantom IIs of the Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron collide during a practice session, crashing in the desert near El Centro, California, but all three pilots eject successfully and survive.
;8 March : "An on-ground collision between two tanker jets at Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus, Ohio, killed two crewmen and injured another seriously. The jets, two $10 million KC135s used for airborne refueling, collided as they both moved into take-off positions. One plane was loaded with fuel. One was extensively damaged by fire; the other's interior was burned."
;12 April
;4 August
;22 August
;19 September
;24 September
;22 October : U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing Five suffers six fatalities in night operations this date when Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A-4b-CV Corsair II BuNo 153204, 'NF-412', of VA-56, flown by Lt Everett
E. Goodrow, and Grumman EA-6A Prowler, BuNo 156980, c/n I-449, 'RM-611', of USMC VMCJ-1 Detachment 101, crewed by 1st Lts. Jot Eve and David L. Moody, fly into the sea 127 miles east of Okinawa 11 miles aft of USS Midway during CVW-5's initial night qualification period. "Attempting to undertake a no-radio, no navigational aids approach in bad weather, the crew found themselves struggling to find 'the boat'. On hearing their radio transmissions, Lt Goodrow found the EA-6A and had the jet form up on his wing for the approach back to the ship. They shot a teardrop pattern directly over the carrier and had turned inbound to the vessel on its course when both simultaneously disappeared from radar screens. None of the aircrew attempted to eject and there were no radio transmissions made from either jet. It was subsequently assumed that both pilots had flown into the water or collided and then hit the water at about the time they would have slowed to extend their flaps, slats, and landing gear." Subsequently, in a search attempt, an H-3 'Angel', Sikorsky SH-3G Sea King, BuNo 149893, launches forward of the island, contrary to NATOPS standards, as there was no point of reference in the dark, and at high power flies straight into the water. Three of four crewmen, Lt s William J. Bates and George A. Wildridge and ADJ1 Richard H. Hall, are lost. This was the last USMC EA-6A loss.
;12 November :U.S. Navy Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A-4c-CV Corsair II, BuNo 153256, 'NF', of VA-93, assigned to USS Midway, crashes into Mount Fuji during a night training flight out of NAF Atsugi, killing Lt. Richard L. "Sparky" Pierson. According to fellow aviator Ens. George Zolla, of VF-161, Pierson "thought he was cleared to a lower altitude than he really was." This airframe saw combat in 1968 with VA-82.
;16 November
;10 December
1974
;24 January;8 February
;9 February
;9 February
;5 March
;5 March
;5 March
;16 March :A U.S. Navy A-7 Corsair II departs NAS Miramar, California, for USS Ranger with wings folded, crashes into a row of houses in a San Diego suburb. Lt. Robert F. Schreiber, 29, ejects.
;31 July
;9 August
;18 August
;1 September
;15 September