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Date: | Friday 1 September 1961 |
Time: | 08:30 |
Type: | Boeing EB-47E Stratojet |
Owner/operator: | 376th BWg USAF |
Registration: | 52-0423 |
MSN: | 450708 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lockbourne Air Force Base (now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base) -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Lockbourne AFB (KLCK) Ohio |
Destination airport: | Lockbourne AFB (KLCK) OH |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:During take off, on a routine training flight, the aircraft flew through some high voltage power cables and crashed in flames into a field off the end of the runway. The aircrew, Commander, Captain, Theodore G. Gerst, - Pilot, 1st. Lt. Raymond D. West and Navigator, 1st. Lt. Richard K. Meyers, all escaped with only minor injuries.
Sources:
B.47.com,
https://www.joebaugher.com, Newspapers.com
News-Messenger, Fermont OH - 1st September 1961.
The Circleville Herald OH - 1st September 1961.
Newark Advocate OH - 1st September 1961.
Chillicothe Gazelle OH - 1st September 1961
Wilmington News-Journal OH - 1st September 1961
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Mar-2020 07:30 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
25-Mar-2020 14:25 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |