ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 74687
Last updated: 16 October 2020
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| Date: | 08-JAN-1962 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing KB-50K Superfortress |
| Owner/operator: | 427th AREFS USAF (427th AREFS United States Air Force) |
| Registration: | 51-0465 |
| C/n / msn: | 16483 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Atlantic Ocean -
 Atlantic Ocean
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Langley AFB, VA |
| Lajes AFB, Azores |
This aircraft was orginially built as TB-50H-BO training aircraft, but later converted to KB-50K aerial refuelling aircraft.
Took off from Lagley AFB for the Azores. Pilot Robert Tawney; co-pilot 1st Lt Lieut Zoltan Robert Szaloki. About 1:00 pm a transmission was heard from the aircaft about 240 miles off the East coast. By 7:00 P.m. a search was started for the missing aircraft. An oil slick was found about 300 miles off the US Coast but it is unknown if that came from the missing aircraft.
Sources:
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/introduction.html
Correio da Manhã 10 January 1962, p6 (2°Caderno)
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/usafserials.html
Link to 9 men crew memorials
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=42975&page=3
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Jun-2010 09:32 | harro | Added |
| 30-Sep-2014 19:10 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator] |
| 30-Sep-2015 05:54 | noman | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2015 19:37 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2015 20:05 | Anon. | Updated [Source] |
| 21-Oct-2015 19:16 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2015 09:05 | noman | Updated [Source] |
| 30-Oct-2015 13:25 | noman | Updated [Source] |
| 08-Apr-2020 10:56 | Tetrapack | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Jun-2020 08:04 | Digger | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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