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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Famous quotes containing the words accidents and/or incidents:
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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