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| Date: | Tuesday 17 June 1986 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 63-7983 |
| MSN: | 18600/639 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 8041 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney J57-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Balboa-Howard Air Force Base (HOW) -
 Panama
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Balboa-Howard AFB (HOW/MPHO) |
The KC-135, of the 305th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana, hit the runway at Howard Air Force Base, became airborne again and crashed into a hill in the jungle.
Sources:
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III
Location
Images:
photo (c) U.S. DoD; Balboa-Howard Air Force Base (HOW); 17 June 1986; (publicdomain)
photo (c) U.S. DoD; Balboa-Howard Air Force Base (HOW); 17 June 1986; (publicdomain)
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