![]() Pilot removed from U-2 program on medical grounds. Airframe repaired for display at 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing headquarters, Beale AFB, California. After landing, pilot revived sufficiently to shut down engine, but then, as he climbed out of the aircraft, accidentally caught the D ring of his ejection seat, which he had not safed, which fired, tossing him in a somersault, but suffered only a chipped tooth. Cessna T-37 Tweet trainer, flying locally, had rendezvoused with U-2 and two crew could see pilot unconscious in the cockpit. ![]() Pilot suffered catatonic seizure, and, amazingly, descended to make uncontrolled landing in cow pasture near Oroville, California, even clipping power lines just before touchdown. Written off after crash on 31 January 1980, Capt. Returned to U-2C configuration for Advanced Location and Strike System (ALSS) project, 1972 damaged on landing at Davis-Monthan AFB, repaired. 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.ฤก980 31 January Lockheed U-2C, 56-6714, Article 381, 21st airframe of first USAF order, delivered August 1957, to 4080th SRW, Laughlin AFB, Texas, as a 'hard nose' sampling aircraft transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency and converted to U-2G in mid-1965 transferred to Strategic Air Command flyable storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1969. ![]()
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