ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 166204
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| Date: | Thursday 7 September 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed T-33 |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force (USAF) |
| Registration: | 52-9353 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Buckley Field, E of Denver, CO -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Crashed.
As per witness account: "This is what my father told me: (Capt.W.P.Rollins) was doing touch and go and was running low on fuel and requested permission to land, permission was denied. He circled, came back and again requested permission and again was denied. He told them he was low on fuel and again asked and was denied and said he was coming in anyway. He said it ran out of fuel just as he crossed over a highway and the plane dropped and hit "the dunes", he said it slid until it hit the runway where it tumbled until it went off the runway. He said it took them 5 or 6 hours to cut him and the copilot, Maj. Bernard March, out of the plane. Both of them were hospitalized even though the local TV news station reported that my dad was killed in the crash, he was not. The plane did not burn because it was out of fuel."
Sources:
http://www.forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/T-33.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-May-2014 05:59 | mrsteve | Added |
| 18-Dec-2015 15:54 | TB | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Apr-2021 19:50 | harro | Updated [Date, Registration, Source, Narrative] |
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