Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 17 MAY 1966 |
| Type: | Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 57-1424 |
| C/n / msn: | 17495/104 |
| First flight: | 1958-06-11 (7 years 11 months) |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3482 |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney J57-P |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Amarillo AFB, TX (AMA) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Amarillo AFB, TX (AMA/KAMA), United States of America |
| Amarillo AFB, TX (AMA/KAMA), United States of America |
Struck the ground during an oscillating unstable approach to land following a refueling mission.
Sources:
» Four crewmen die in crash (Mansfield News Journal, 1966-05-19)
» Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
