Hull-loss description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 MAR 1982 |
| Type: | Lockheed C-141B Starlifter |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 67-0017 |
| C/n / msn: | 300-6268 |
| First flight: | |
| Total airframe hrs: | 21878 |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-7 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Columbia-McEntire Air National Guard Base, SC (MMT) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Standing (STD) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
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While in crew rest during a Red Flag redeployment mission, some crewmembers were taking friends to see their airplane. When they started the APU, an APU accumulator ruptured. The resulting fire destroyed aircraft.
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Sources:
» C-141 Lifetime Mishap Summary / Lt. Col. Paul M. Hansen, USAFR, Ret. McChord AFB WA (1 October, 2004)
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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.
