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| Date: | Wednesday 8 August 1962 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 55-3144 |
| MSN: | 17260/27 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney J57-P |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bedford-Hanscom Field, MA (BED) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dayton-Wright Patterson AFB, OH (FFO/KFFO) |
| Bedford-Hanscom Field, MA (BED/KBED) |
The KC-135 departed on a flight from Wright Patterson AFB (FFO) to Bedford-Hanscom Field, MA (BED) for modification of test equipment. On approach it clipped the tops of telephone poles and crashed into a boulder.
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