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ABC News radio broadcast on Roswell disc – July 8, 1947. The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory which alleges that the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico was actually caused by an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project ...
United States Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert M. Bond (1929–1984), Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command, is killed in a high-speed ejection from a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, out of Groom Lake, Nevada at 1018 hrs., which was initially reported to be an F-117A Stealth fighter.
The base is about 10 miles (16 km) west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, on U.S. Route 70; 90 miles (145 km) north of El Paso, Texas; and 70 miles (113 km) east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The base covers 59,639 acres (24,135 ha ) and is located at an altitude of 4,093 feet (1,248 m).
Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital was built at the corner of Tenth Street and Cuba Avenue in Alamogordo and was dedicated on Sunday, July 31, 1949 [13] and officially opened for business on Tuesday, August 2, with 24 beds. [9] A number of additions and renovations were made to the facility over the years.
Witnesses reported that one engine failed before the crash; [ 546] the aircraft was in a spin, and exploded before impact. [ 547] 30 September. First Avro 707 delta-wing research aircraft VX784, first flown on 6 September 1949 (one source says 4 September), crashed near Blackbushe on a test flight from Boscombe Down.
20. Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 was an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft that crashed in the community of Burwell between the cities Bowdon, Georgia and Carrollton, Georgia, on August 21, 1995. Nine of the 29 passengers and crew on board were killed as a result of the accident. [ 1]: 5 The accident bore similarities to Atlantic ...
Juan Corral, Alamogordo Daily News April 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM Two people died in a three-car crash at the intersection of White Sands Blvd. and 10th St. on April 7.
The crash killed eight of the nine crew on board; the co-pilot, Captain Joseph L. Church, parachuted to safety. The crash was believed to have been caused by overstressing the wings and/or airframe during an exercise designed to test the pilot's reflexes. This was the fourth crash involving a B-52 in eleven months. [5] [6] [7]