Complex sentence: Robert M. Bond (16 December 1929--26 April 1984) was a lieutenant general of the United States Air Force who died in an accident while flying a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 jet fighter-bomber.
Split into simpler sentences: Robert M. Bond (16 December 1929--26 April 1984) was a lieutenant general of the United States Air Force. He died in an accident while flying a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 jet fighter-bomber.