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| Date: | Thursday 28 April 1977 |
| Time: | 03:45 |
| Type: |  Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 58-0101 |
| MSN: | 17846/316 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7821 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney J57-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB/KBAB) |
| Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB/KBAB) |
The KC-135A was practicing night takeoffs and landings at Beale AFB (BAB). During that time cattle strayed through a broken fence from a nearby field and on to the main runway. During one of the touch-ad-goes, the airplane struck a five or six cattle. Takeoff was aborted and the plane overran the runway and caught fire.
Sources:
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III
Location
Images:
photo (c) Jon Mickley; Marysville-Beale AFB, CA (BAB); April 1977
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