Photo: “Wreckage at Desert One, Iran (April 1980) where eight Americans died.”

Photographer: Public Domain
Taken: 1980
Caption: “Wreckage at Desert One, Iran (April 1980) where eight Americans died.”
Additional Description: 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.
Submitted: December 13, 2016, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p372162
File Size: 0.041 Megabytes

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