1960 F-84 Thunderstreak crash
Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force F-84F Thunderstreak · Crashed into terrain due to unknown reasons
From Eindhoven Airport (EIN) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 6
- Occupants
- 1
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
F-84F Thunderstreak
- Aircraft type
- F 84F THUNDERSTREAK
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- P-271
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Eindhoven Airport (EIN)To not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Wjelsryp, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 20 November 1960, an F-84F Thunderstreak of the Royal Netherlands Air Force crashed at 7:50pm into a farm in Lutjelollum between Wjelsryp and Franeker, the Netherlands. The pilot and the family of six people who lived at the farm were all killed. The farm was destroyed and burned down and the livestock was killed.
It was the worst military airplane incident in the Netherlands since the 1957 Bussum North American F-100 Super Sabre crash. It was outside war time, the biggest aircraft tragedy of the province Friesland.
Flight and crash
At 7:30pm the F-84F Thunderstreak departed from Eindhoven Airport. At 7:48 he was flying above Makkum at a height of around 1000 metres. He would have flown in the direction of Emmen and planned to elevate another 300 metres higher. At 8:50 the plane crashed into a farm in Lutjelollum between Wjelsryp and Franeker. The plane crashed into the ground on the site of the living area of the farm and created a crater of about 25 square meters.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
In the evening of the crash, a team from The Hague went by plane to the crash site to do preliminary investigation. The committee consisted of major Herckenrath and captain Collet. The next day an investigation team of the tactical air forces command went by plane to the crash site.
The pilot did not indicate in any way that something was wrong. There were no indications that the plane already exploded in the air.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1960 F-84 Thunderstreak crash
- Revision
- 1363532598 · 2026-07-10 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q119873463
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1960 F-84 Thunderstreak crash" (page 74118828, revision 1363532598)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.