Nope It was aircraft 745, which was originally a single seat that we had removed the forward cockpit section from and installed a 2 seat (side by side) cockpit section on, to convert if from a F Mk 50 (fighter) to a T Mk 8...(trainer) .It happened in 1998 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Pilots name wa John Childress. Plane essentially flamed out on approach duruiing a series of touch and goes and some other low altitude manuvers the pilot wa doing, and came in as a pancake landing......IIRC there really was minimal damage overall to the aircraft, and it was his delay in ejecting and reliance on his training (trust your instruments etc) that cost him his life..... His drouge chute on his canopy was deployed but the seat never left the aircraft as he pulled too late. He was a teriffic pilot, and at one time flew as a member of the Thunderbird's, as well as later being the OIC in charge of the USAF demostration team in F4's. The USAF demonstration team is not the same thing as a Thunderbird member, as its usually one pilot that takes a single ship to a base to demo its capability to a new gaining unit to get their adrenalin pumping etc......He used to be regular USAF, then joined the Alabama Air NAtional guard as a Recce and later a fighter pilot, in addition to being a Captain for either Delta or American Airlines, and later on he was transferred by the ALA NAt Guard to a position in Washington DC as a National Guard Liason Officer to the USAF, where he still moon lighted as a commercial airlines captain as well as chielf pilot for the company that bought the aircraft from Northern Lights when it went out of Business.
The link detaining all investigation of this accident is below. The aircraft you mentioned also at one time belonged to Northern Lights and was acquired later on after acft 745 IIRC and it came from Ruwanda S.A . Air Force IIRC....
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