Staff Sgt. Waddington Sanchez, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (AP) -- Five hundred Army paratroopers were preparing for a routine flight when two planes collided above, sending pandemonium and death hurtling toward them.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured Wednesday when two planes coming into land at the same time collided, sending one jet skidding across a runway at Army paratroopers on the ground waiting for a jump. All of the victims were on the ground.
The F-16D fighter and the C-130 Hercules transport collided less than 300 feet above the Air Force base Wednesday afternoon. Both pilots thought they were cleared to land. The C-130's five-member crew landed safely despite losing a piece of the tail. The fighter pilot and a flier being trained ejected safely, but their jet crashed in flames and skidded across the runway at 180 mph.
Flying metal punctured the fuel tanks of a C-141 transport plane preparing for takeoff, destroying the plane in a blaze. All six crew members aboard the C-141 escaped injury.
The jet's flaming hulk then skidded into a staging area where about 500 Army troops from the 82nd Airborne and other units from nearby Fort Bragg preparing for jumping exercises. The C-141 was going to take the paratroopers up.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured, Fort Bragg spokesman Gene Sexton said today.
Sixty-four soldiers were hospitalized, most with burns and broken bones. A medical team specializing in burn injuries was sent from Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio. Some of the injured were to be transferred to burn units as far away as Texas.
The fighter jet and the C-130 were assigned to Pope. The C-141 was from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
The crash is one of the worst accidents at Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg, about 50 miles south of Raleigh.
The Progress Clearfield Pennsylvania 03-24-1994
Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (AP) -- Five hundred Army paratroopers were preparing for a routine flight when two planes collided above, sending pandemonium and death hurtling toward them.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured Wednesday when two planes coming into land at the same time collided, sending one jet skidding across a runway at Army paratroopers on the ground waiting for a jump. All of the victims were on the ground.
The F-16D fighter and the C-130 Hercules transport collided less than 300 feet above the Air Force base Wednesday afternoon. Both pilots thought they were cleared to land. The C-130's five-member crew landed safely despite losing a piece of the tail. The fighter pilot and a flier being trained ejected safely, but their jet crashed in flames and skidded across the runway at 180 mph.
Flying metal punctured the fuel tanks of a C-141 transport plane preparing for takeoff, destroying the plane in a blaze. All six crew members aboard the C-141 escaped injury.
The jet's flaming hulk then skidded into a staging area where about 500 Army troops from the 82nd Airborne and other units from nearby Fort Bragg preparing for jumping exercises. The C-141 was going to take the paratroopers up.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured, Fort Bragg spokesman Gene Sexton said today.
Sixty-four soldiers were hospitalized, most with burns and broken bones. A medical team specializing in burn injuries was sent from Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio. Some of the injured were to be transferred to burn units as far away as Texas.
The fighter jet and the C-130 were assigned to Pope. The C-141 was from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
The crash is one of the worst accidents at Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg, about 50 miles south of Raleigh.
The Progress Clearfield Pennsylvania 03-24-1994
Staff Sgt. Waddington Sanchez, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (AP) -- Five hundred Army paratroopers were preparing for a routine flight when two planes collided above, sending pandemonium and death hurtling toward them.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured Wednesday when two planes coming into land at the same time collided, sending one jet skidding across a runway at Army paratroopers on the ground waiting for a jump. All of the victims were on the ground.
The F-16D fighter and the C-130 Hercules transport collided less than 300 feet above the Air Force base Wednesday afternoon. Both pilots thought they were cleared to land. The C-130's five-member crew landed safely despite losing a piece of the tail. The fighter pilot and a flier being trained ejected safely, but their jet crashed in flames and skidded across the runway at 180 mph.
Flying metal punctured the fuel tanks of a C-141 transport plane preparing for takeoff, destroying the plane in a blaze. All six crew members aboard the C-141 escaped injury.
The jet's flaming hulk then skidded into a staging area where about 500 Army troops from the 82nd Airborne and other units from nearby Fort Bragg preparing for jumping exercises. The C-141 was going to take the paratroopers up.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured, Fort Bragg spokesman Gene Sexton said today.
Sixty-four soldiers were hospitalized, most with burns and broken bones. A medical team specializing in burn injuries was sent from Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio. Some of the injured were to be transferred to burn units as far away as Texas.
The fighter jet and the C-130 were assigned to Pope. The C-141 was from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
The crash is one of the worst accidents at Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg, about 50 miles south of Raleigh.
The Progress Clearfield Pennsylvania 03-24-1994
Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (AP) -- Five hundred Army paratroopers were preparing for a routine flight when two planes collided above, sending pandemonium and death hurtling toward them.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured Wednesday when two planes coming into land at the same time collided, sending one jet skidding across a runway at Army paratroopers on the ground waiting for a jump. All of the victims were on the ground.
The F-16D fighter and the C-130 Hercules transport collided less than 300 feet above the Air Force base Wednesday afternoon. Both pilots thought they were cleared to land. The C-130's five-member crew landed safely despite losing a piece of the tail. The fighter pilot and a flier being trained ejected safely, but their jet crashed in flames and skidded across the runway at 180 mph.
Flying metal punctured the fuel tanks of a C-141 transport plane preparing for takeoff, destroying the plane in a blaze. All six crew members aboard the C-141 escaped injury.
The jet's flaming hulk then skidded into a staging area where about 500 Army troops from the 82nd Airborne and other units from nearby Fort Bragg preparing for jumping exercises. The C-141 was going to take the paratroopers up.
Fifteen people were killed and 91 injured, Fort Bragg spokesman Gene Sexton said today.
Sixty-four soldiers were hospitalized, most with burns and broken bones. A medical team specializing in burn injuries was sent from Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio. Some of the injured were to be transferred to burn units as far away as Texas.
The fighter jet and the C-130 were assigned to Pope. The C-141 was from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.
The crash is one of the worst accidents at Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg, about 50 miles south of Raleigh.
The Progress Clearfield Pennsylvania 03-24-1994
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