Throughout its service in the Air Training Command and the successor Air Education and Training Command , no T-43 was ever lost in a mishap . Among the T-43s removed from navigator training and converted to CT-43A executive transports , one aircraft assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing ( 86 AW ) at Ramstein Air Base , Germany to support United States European Command ( USEUCOM ) crashed in Croatia in 1996 while carrying then-U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other passengers . There were no survivors and subsequent investigation determined that this was a controlled flight into terrain ( CFIT ) mishap as a result of pilot error
crashed in Croatia in 1996
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
Boeing T-43