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Dane- Way too many F-111 accidents to document here, starting in 1974 for me and ending in 1991.

Brian- Way more losses in peacetime training than combat, even including WW-II. Likely two to three times higher for training accidents. The only loss we had with the F-111F in the first Gulf War was during Desert Shield, not Desert Storm. The crewmembers were two of my instructors. We also lost an F-111F in 1986 during El Dorado Canyon, which was a real combat loss. One friend plus my scheduled replacement at a test squadron Quite a few more were lost during training, some fatal, some not. I have probably told this before, but out of my 5-man wing weapons shop at RAF Lakenheath in the early 80s, one was lost in an F-111D accident at Cannon AFB and another in an F-5E accident at Williams AFB. One of us 5 also got epilepsy and permanent grounding, so not a lucky group.