Pilot suffered catatonic seizure, and, amazingly, descended to make uncontrolled landing in cow pasture near Oroville, California, even clipping power lines just before touchdown. Written off after crash on 31 January 1980, Capt. Returned to U-2C configuration for Advanced Location and Strike System (ALSS) project, 1972 damaged on landing at Davis-Monthan AFB, repaired. Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.ġ980 31 January Lockheed U-2C, 56-6714, Article 381, 21st airframe of first USAF order, delivered August 1957, to 4080th SRW, Laughlin AFB, Texas, as a 'hard nose' sampling aircraft transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency and converted to U-2G in mid-1965 transferred to Strategic Air Command flyable storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1969.
