Sent from the all new AOL app for Android ----- Forwarded Message To: "Jack Keady" <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 16:23 Subject: Clifton Williams - Wikiwand T-38 ejection seat accident On October 5, 1967, Williams was flying from Cape Canaveral back to Houston, with a stop in Mobile to visit his father who was dying of cancer.[1][10] A mechanical failure caused the aileron controls to jam on his T-38 jet trainer near Tallahassee, Florida, causing an uncontrollable aileron roll. The aircraft dove straight down, between pine trees 100 feet (30 m) apart, and crashed without touching them, although it did singe them from a fire caused by the crash. The jet was flying at 22,300 feet (6,800 m) when it performed a sudden roll to the left and dove nearly vertically into the earth at 700 mph (1,130 km/h).[9] Williams ejected at an altitude of 1,500 feet (460 m), but the aircraft was traveling too fast and too low for the seat to land safely.[10] An Air Force spokesman stated, "The plane disintegrated and the body disintegrated with it."[1][9] www.wikiwand.com Clifton Williams - Wikiwand Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who wa... 🔗 https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Clifton_Williams Â
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