Eagle Claw wrecks at Desert One April 1980

Autor/Urheber:

U.S. military

Shortlink:

https://www.dewiki.de/b/5f940

Quelle:

Wikimedia Commons

Größe:

481 x 354 Pixel (40931 Bytes)

Beschreibung:

A photo of the "Desert One" landing site, a piece of desert in Iran used by U.S. forces as a refueling point in an attempt to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. On 24 April 1980 a U.S. Navy Sikorsky RH-53D Sea Stallion (BuNo 158760, visible at right) collided with a U.S. Air Force Lockheed EC-130E Hercules (s/n 62-1809, wrecked in the foreground) during refueling after the mission was aborted. Both aircraft were destroyed, eight crewmen died. In the background is one of the five intact, but abandoned RH-53Ds.
Original-Bildunterschrift: "Wreckage at Desert One, Iran (April 1980) where eight Americans died.
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Kommentar zur Lizenz:

PD-USGOV-MILITARY.

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

United States Special Operations Command History, 1987-2007