This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances. Flying Officer Chatterjee's ashes were removed from Golders Green following cremation. AP β Thirst for drinking water was the chief worry of two weary airmen during a hour battle in the storm-swept Gulf of Mexico in a life raft.
They were brought here Tuesday. Charles D. Jones, 31, of Meridian , Miss. Rosing, 22, of Ingleside , Ill. We never had any doubts but that we would be picked up,' said Jones, a sandy-haired veteran of six years with the Air Force. For security reasons, newsmen were not permitted to ask the airmen about the accident which caused their plight. Rosing, a stocky, black-haired youth, was brought off the crash boat on a stretcher. He suffered second and third degree burns about the hands and face when his plane caught fire.
He also was suffering from shock, and medics administered plasma as soon as he arrived. Jones said his first thought when the plane was hit was to jump, even though he'd never made a parachute jump before in his life. An Air Force C spotted the raft bobbing about in the Gulf 60 miles southwest of Panama City, and directed the minesweeper Seer to the spot.
Both came aboard under their own power, although Rosing had severe burns of the face and hands caused when the plane caught fire. Before the rescue they spent 24 gruelling hours being tossed about by 15 feet high waves in the Gulf.
The Air Force refused to give up hope for the remaining crewmen. It speculated that heavy currents might have carried any other survivors several miles from the spot where the plane came down. A large force of air and surface rescue craft ranged over a wide area of the Gulf searching for remaining crewmen.
