WO Ronald R. Rivera

[CW4 RET Rick Karle]

Dear Sir,

CW4 Ronald R. Rivera died in an AH-64A at firing point seven at the old Hammond Range. The tailrotor swashplate froze causing a fixed pitch setting from which he was unable to recover.

Hope you find this informnation useful.

Thanks for maintaining this site.




Rick Karle
CW4 (RET)
Academic Instructor
HHC, 110 AVN BDE
Fort Rucker, AL 36362
[phone] / 2588
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[jjkeegan]

New member and just saw the posting. I had been informed he was killed in a UH-60 accident; Ron and I were stick buddies when I went back through tactics MOI in early 1979 at Rucker. Great guy and a true professional aviator.

[Admin]

No, he was killed in an AH-64 crash which prompted an immediate grounding of all Apaches.

[Cathy DeMeere]

Jan 27, 2011 13:11:52 GMT -6 jjkeegan said:

New member and just saw the posting. I had been informed he was killed in a UH-60 accident; Ron and I were stick buddies when I went back through tactics MOI in early 1979 at Rucker. Great guy and a true professional aviator.

[musket605]

Rick is correct and the Apache was indeed grounded for a while I/A/W a SOF Msg.
Ron was our Cobra SIP with the 3rd Avn Bn in Gieb before he went to the school house as one of the first guys to teach the AQC.