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A-29 Light-Attack Plane Crashes During Air Force Experiment

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A-29 Light-Attack Plane Crashes During Air Force Experiment
Two Afghan Air Force A-29 Super Tucanos fly over Kabul in 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo)

An A-29 Super Tucano crashed June 22 during a training flight for the Air Force’s light-attack aircraft experiment, killing one of its aircrew members.Navy Lt. Christopher Carey Short of Canandaigua, N.Y., died when the A-29 he was piloting crashed at 11:30 a.m. Mountain time over the Red Rio Bombing Range, which is part of the Army’s White Sands Missile Range and is north of Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. "There's no way to describe the shock of this loss…

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