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Accidents & Crashes listed by date:
| BuNo | Type | Unit | Modex # | Date |
| ? | F-14 | VF-213 | 20.07.1993 | |
| The F-14 crashed during the landing aboard USS Abraham Lincoln while the ship was conducting routine flight operations in the Indian Ocean. Both crewman ejected, but the pilot was killed in the mishap. Six other people on the flightdeck were injured. | ||||
| ? | F-14A | VF-84 | 18.11.1993 | |
| The aircraft crashed in Currituck Sound, North Carolina, after receiving indications of an onboard fire when returning from a routine air combat training mission. | ||||
| ? | F-14 | 12.02.1994 | ||
| A section of F-14s and a section F/A-18s launched from a carrier in the Mediterranean Sea on separate training missions. At approximately 21,000 ft, about 26 miles from the ship, having been cleared en route by foreign controllers, the sections unknowingly converged toward each other. During a verbal exchange with a ground controller, the lead F-14 swapped positions with its wingman in order to complete a clean-and-dry check. Thus, the leader was in wing position as the Hornets approached the Tomcats. The following precautionary transmissions were reportedly made to the F-14s by carrier ATC: "Stranger 210, range 12, no height." Then, "Stranger 195, range 15, no height" followed by "Stranger 180, range 6" and "Stranger on the nose at 3 miles at 108 degrees aspect ... Merge." The F-14 leader, while conducting a cross- under from left ot right for the clean-and-dry check, heard the six- and 3-miles-calls. The F-14 in the lead heard nothing before the 3-miles-call and perceived the traffic to be at his three o'clock position heading in the opposite direction. The F-14 leader (wingman for the moment) moved away to the right of the other F-14 and scanned for traffic along with his RIO. Immediately thereafter, the pilot and RIO simultaneously acquired the Hornet directly in their flight path and realized a collision was imminent. Shortly before this, the lead Hornet's wingman had selected auto acquisition mode on hisradar and noted a target at 3.5 miles with a closure rate of 660 knots. A moment later the F/A-18 wingman passed 50 ft below the F-14, which was conducting the clean-and-dry check. The F-14 tried to maneuver up and to the right, but the F/A-18 leader's aircraft slammed into the Tomcat. At impact the Hornet's nose was a little high, wings in a slight left angle of bank. The impact severed two-thirds of the F-14's right wing. The Hornet lost 5 ft of the starboard wing. In order to maintain flight, the F-14 flew at full afterburner on the right engine, idle on the left, with full left stick and partial left rudder inputs. The Tomcat headed for the nearest suitable landing field, Brindisi, Italy, but on final approach, 17 minutes later, both engines quit due to fuel starvation (from the leaking wing). The pilot and RIO ejected, landed in the sea and were rescued uninjured. | ||||
| ? | F-14A | VF-51 | 07/08.1994 | |
| In the course of a night landing aboard USS Kitty Hawk the F-14 struck the ramp and exploded. The resulting fireball rolled down the flight deck as the Tomcat broke apart. A drop tank spewed fuel as it slid into the catwalk, carrying the flames with it. The crew ejected. The RIO landed on the forward part of the ship and was only slightly injured, but the pilot descended into the burning fuel in the landing area and was successfully rescued. | ||||
| ? | F-14A | VF-84 | 26.08.1994 | |
| The F-14 crashed in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. Both crewman were rescued. | ||||
| ? | F-14 | 15.09.1994 | ||
| The two Tomcats from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower collided off the North Carolina coast while conducting a routine training mission. Two aviators were lost at sea when their aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the other F-14 landed at MCAS Cherry Point. | ||||
| ? | F-14 | 25.10.1994 | ||
| The F-14, piloted by the first female F-14 pilot in the US Navy, crashed about 50 miles off the coast of San Diego, California, during an attempted landing on USS Abraham Lincoln. The pilot was killed, the RIO safely ejected. | ||||
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