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| Date: | Thursday 16 September 1971 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  McDonnell Douglas C-9A Nightingale (DC-9-30) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 67-22586 |
| MSN: | 47296/362 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 0,8 km NW of Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV/KBLV) |
| Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV/KBLV) |
This air ambulance C-9A, a military variant of the DC-9, was operated by the Military Airlift Command's 375 MAW. The airplane departed Scott AFB, IL (BLV) on a training flight.
A first-stage fan blade of the no. 2 engine failed during a go-around. The C-9 crashed into an unoccupied farm house.
Sources:
St. Petersburg Times - Sep 17, 1971
NTSB Safety Recommendations A-72-74 and -75
Location
Images:
photo (c) USAF; Tech Sgt A. McGraw; over St. Louis, MO (publicdomain)
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