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Date: 6 October 1970
Aircraft type: F-8J Crusader
Serial Number: 150289
Military Unit: VF-191
Service: USN
Home Base: USS Oriskany
Name(s):
Lt John Bernard Martin II (KWF)

A Crusader pilot was killed when his aircraft hit the ramp and disintegrated on an approach to the Oriskany following a BARCAP mission over the Gulf of Tonkin.

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