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Air Force Scraps Training Plane

Number 16291
Subject Military
Source Gazette Telegraph (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
State Colorado
Year 1999
Publication Date Oct. 9, 1999
Summary The Gazette Telegraph reports about "the Air Force's troubled training plane, the T-3 Firefly, which crashed three times, killing six people, before being grounded. This story reported the Air Force was scrapping the plane, on the day it was decided by the secretary of the Air Force."
Category Contest Entry
Pages 4
Keywords flight schools Air Education and Training Command Randolf Air Force Base
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