Accidents and Incidents
- On 4 April 1957 the USAF Captain Richard W. Higgins died after a low ejection with one of the first F-84F of the German Air Force near the Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base.
- In June 1957 Bud Day survived a "no chute" ejection from an F-84 in Britain following an engine fire.
- On 29 August 1961, a French Air Force F-84F clipped the cable of an aerial tramway at Mont Blanc, killing six people and leaving 81 more stranded. The pilot was on a reconnaissance mission and was unaware of the accident until after he had landed.
- On 14 September 1961, two West German F-84F of the Luftwaffe crossed into East German airspace due to a navigational error, eventually landing at Berlin Tegel Airport, evading a large number of Soviet fighter aircraft. The event came at a historically difficult time during the Cold War, one month after the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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