Date: | Thursday 8 March 1973 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 63-7989 |
MSN: | 18606/645 |
Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
Total airframe hrs: | 4933 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney J57-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Columbus-Lockbourne AFB, OH (LCK) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Columbus-Lockbourne AFB, OH (LCK/KLCK) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:During a practice alert at Lockbourne AFB, two KC-135 Stratotankers (63-7989 and 63-7980) taxied from an unlit ramp towards the runway. Both aircraft collided while manoeuvring off the ramp. Stratotanker 63-7989 continued 200 yards before coming to a stop in a muddy, grassy section just off the concrete apron. Flames engulfed the tanker from the cockpit to the mid-section and burned two large holes in the plane.
Sources:
Marysville Journal-Tribune (March 9, 1973)
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III
Location
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photo (c) Richard Harris; Columbus-Lockbourne AFB, OH (LCK); 09 March 1973
photo (c) Richard Harris; Columbus-Lockbourne AFB, OH (LCK); 09 March 1973
photo (c) Richard Harris; Columbus-Lockbourne AFB, OH (LCK); 09 March 1973
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