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| Date: | Tuesday 21 November 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Convair C-131E (CV-440) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 55-4750 |
| MSN: | 337 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 12 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Oklahoma City, OK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Bellevue-Offutt AFB, NE (OFF/KOFF) |
| Oklahoma City-Tinker AFB, OK (TIK/KTIK) |
The aircraft came in short of the runway during an instrument landing at night and crash-landed. The twin-engine C-131 plowed through a fence and cracked at mid-fuselage. Propellers and engines were torn loose. Six were injured, one seriously. OCAMA commander Maj Gen Lewis L. Mundell (51) was slightly injured.
Sources:
Youngstown Vindicator 22 Novembwe 1961, p5
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