ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335371
| Date: | Thursday 23 April 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker |
| Owner/operator: | Boeing |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 112 km SW off Seattle, WA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Seattle-Boeing Field International Airport, WA (BFI/KBFI) |
| Seattle-Boeing Field International Airport, WA (BFI/KBFI) |
Abandoned by the crew after one engine exploded and damaged the tail a few minutes after take-off. A preflight mechanic (24) for the Boeing Airplane Co as a unauthorized passenger, without a parachute, was killed. The KC-97 was on a test flight before turned over to the Air Force as a military freighter.
Sources:
Evening Star 24 April 1953, pA11
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