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
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	ca 0,8 km NW of Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV) -   United States of America
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV/KBLV)
Destination airport:	Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV/KBLV)

Narrative:
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.

St. Petersburg Times - Sep 17, 1971
NTSB Safety Recommendations A-72-74 and -75

photo (c) USAF; Tech Sgt A. McGraw; over St. Louis, MO (publicdomain)

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