Date:	Thursday 28 April 1977
Time:	03:45
Type:	Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	58-0101
MSN:	17846/316
Year of manufacture:	1959
Total airframe hrs:	7821 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney J57-P
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB) -   United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB/KBAB)
Destination airport:	Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB/KBAB)

Narrative:
The KC-135A was practicing night takeoffs and landings at Beale AFB (BAB). During that time cattle strayed through a broken fence from a nearby field and on to the main runway. During one of the touch-ad-goes, the airplane struck a five or six cattle. Takeoff was aborted and the plane overran the runway and caught fire.

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III

photo (c) Jon Mickley; Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB); April 1977

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