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X-15 crash at Mud Lake, Nevada

On November 9, 1962, an engine failure forced Jack McKay, a NASA research pilot, to make an emergency landing at Mud Lake Nevada, in his X-15 aircraft. The aircraft's landing gear collapsed and the X-15 flipped over on its back. McKay was promptly rescued by an Air Forced medical team and eventually recovered to fly the X-15 again.

Credits - NASA