Accident description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 14 SEP 1977 |
| Time: | 23:48 |
| Type: | Boeing EC-135K |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 62-3536 |
| C/n / msn: | 18519/587 |
| First flight: | 1963-02-27 (14 years 7 months) |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7307 |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney TF33-PW-102 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 8 km (5 mls) E of Albuquerque-Kirtland AFB, NM (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Albuquerque-Kirtland AFB, NM (KIKR), United States of America |
| Las Vegas-Nellis AFB, NV (LSV/KLSV), United States of America |
Crashed in steep terrain, about 8,500 feet up the Manzano Mountain range.
Sources:
» Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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Distance from Albuquerque-Kirtland AFB, NM to Las Vegas-Nellis AFB, NV as the crow flies is 768 km (480 miles).
Distance from Albuquerque-Kirtland AFB, NM to Las Vegas-Nellis AFB, NV as the crow flies is 768 km (480 miles).
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.
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