Re:Gene Cernan has died
by JoeAltmaier on Monday January 16, 2017 @06:02PM
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Didn't a crew die in a pad fire?
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A cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test on January 27 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White II, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the Command Module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was officially retired by NASA in commemoration of them on April 24, 1967.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
Arguably not a launch, as it was a rehearsal.
You probably are thinking of Apollo 1? That was a fire in the capsule during a test, not a launch situation, and unrelated to the rocket -> might not be fair to attach those deaths to the Saturn V, only to the moon program.