List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1960–1969)
This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.
For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office, the Air Safety Network, or the Dutch Scramble Website Brush and Dustpan Database.
Combat losses are not included, except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.
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 (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.
Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter of the Indian Air Force, on an inspection tour crashed in Poonch district en route to Poonch town, killing all six people on board.
B-52H,
61-023
, configured at the time as a
testbed
to investigate structural failures, still flying after its
vertical stabilizer
sheared off in severe turbulence on 10 January 1964. The aircraft landed safely.
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Monument to the feat of Yanov and Kapustin in the Finovfurt Aviation Museum
XB-70
62-0207
following the
midair collision
on 8 June 1966 with Joe Walker's F-104N tumbling in flames in foreground.
The crash site of the M2-F2
A drawing of the stern of
Forrestal
showing the spotting of aircraft at the time. Likely source of the Zuni was F-4 No. 110. White's and McCain's aircraft are in the right hand circle.
C-7 Caribou
62-4161
plunges to earth after being struck by
US Army
artillery, 3 August 1967. Photo by Hiromichi Mine.
Aerial photograph of blackened ice at the accident site near Thule, with the point of impact at the top
Armstrong floats to the ground after ejecting from LLRV 1.