ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334676
Date: | Tuesday 26 June 1956 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 52-2700 |
MSN: | 16731 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Roswell-Walker AFB, NM -
United States of America
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Roswell-Walker AFB, NM |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The KC-97G air tanker lost a blade of the no.2 prop on takeoff from Roswell-Walker AFB. The blade slashed through the fuselage and hit the refueling tanks. The aircraft rolled into the ground and was totally destroyed.
Sources:
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher Passauer Neue Presse 28 June 1956, p2
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