Roll of Honor
Incident
Special Agent Terry Hereford, Special Agent Michael Lynch, Special Agent Robert Conners, and Special Agent Charles Ellington were killed in an aircraft accident while on approach to Cincinnati's Lunken Airport near Montgomery, Ohio. The agents were accompanying a bank fraud suspect and his lawyer to Cincinnati during an investigation. When the plane was approximately 11 miles from Lunken Airport, its altimeter indicated false readings, leading the pilots to believe they were at a higher altitude. As a result, the plane struck a set of power lines and crashed, killing all aboard. The plane was being piloted by Special Agent Conners and Special Agent Hereford when it crashed. Agent Hereford was a United States Army Vietnam War Purple Heart veteran of the U.S. Army who had served with the FBI for three years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and four children.
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Special Agent Hereford gave the United States Department of Justice 3 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Terry Burnett Hereford served in the Army (1965â1968) before joining law enforcement.
Special Agent Terry Burnett Hereford is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In DC, 454 of 1,419 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation, 30 of 89 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.7% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Terry Burnett Hereford's cause is highlighted.
How Terry Burnett Hereford Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
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