95986

94985 

95187

123621

125286 

128129 

131213

131208

Flew into ground during rejoin.

138640 

138642

141871

147404

141867

Flew into water on test flight

141883?

141869? 

[see also 2nd September 1966]

141849?

Gear caught cable on formation takeoff.

141764  

[see slso 16th January 1965]

141738?

141850? 

141870 [?]

141873

153085

belly landed with one engine stuck in afterburner. aircraft ran off runway

[see also 27th January 1973]

Good job on the website!! I love it.

I also want to pass on an ejection you missed. It occurred on 5 June  1971 over Narragansett Bay near the ex-NAS Quonset Point in Rhode  Island. Blue Angels Cmdr Harley Hall's F-4 caught fire during Friday  practice and punched out over the Bay. The canopy and small fragments of  the jet are at the Quonset Air Museum. I photographed the canopy as proof.

He was going to try to bring the burning jet in to the air station, but  his team mates suggested he punch out. It was a small article in our  Journal. I still have a xeroxed copy of the clipping that someone gave me a  long time ago.

Also this was the same Harley Hall who was one of the last pilots killed  in the Vietnam War. He and his RIO LCDR Phillip Allen Kientzler (POW)  were downed by AAA in F-4J 155768 with VF-143. The date was 27 January  1973... the day the Paris Peace Accords were signed.

Keep up the good work!!
Bob Zoglio
in email 19th June 2007

Taproom 113

(the RIO  LCdr P A Kientzler
 POW / DIC)

[see also 4th June 1971]

Lt. Cdr. D. K. Bently

Lt. M. D. Wiits

who was in which aircraft ???

photos courtesy of
Len Mozey
Blue Angels Alumni Association  

photos courtesy of
Len Mozey
Blue Angels Alumni Association 

153081

ADJ.1C Gerald Harvey ejected safely

WHO WAS IN WHICH AIRCRAFT ???

153072

My duties as the senior base policeman qualify me as an expert witness to this accident.  The midair collision occurred about 1630 local after conducting a local safety check landmark verification that was also known as the pre-arrival air show.  The two aircraft section was climbing and joining the other two aircraft section heading about 150(T) about one mile south of the centre of the station jump circle.  The aircraft impacted at about 40-01N/74-22W at about 2000 ft. altitude.  The aircraft made contact with the ground and crossed two lane highway at about 39-59N/74-21W.  Google earth maps were used for the measurements.

My vehicle was located in front southwest side of the tower.  Upon seeing the fireball I proceeded to back gate of the base, picked up a Navy Corpsman at the off base housing complex called Pinehurst and was the first station vehicle to arrive at the crash scene.

The missing name on your website is that of the plane captain for the Bureau Number 153072.  The  survivor  of the crash was recovered from a tree, taken to medical and the chapel.  After being found fit to fly he was transferred to NAS Pensacola in one of the remaining spare Blue Angels F-4's.

The Air Show continued for the next two days.  Captain Nealon was the CO of the base at the time.

Oldnacl
in email 10th August 2007

in email 29th April 2008

154202

 155177

154975

155029

collided with A‑4F 154992  #6 on the top of a loop during display, Niagara Falls IAP, NY, USA

photos courtesy of
Len Mozey
Blue Angels Alumni Association 

154992
 

collided with A‑4F 155029  #5 on the top of a loop during display, Niagara Falls IAP, NY, USA

photos courtesy of
Len Mozey
Blue Angels Alumni Association 

161522

161524

Blue Angel
(#3)

161932

161956

Hit tree during formation rejoin during show