Serial | 017404 | |||||||||||||||
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First Flight | 19.5.1958 | |||||||||||||||
Model | KC-135A Stratotanker | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | w/o 30.7.1968 cr 35 mi (56 km) E of Red Buff, Ca; a/c was on a refuelling training mission out of Castle AFB, CA, & practising an emergency decent from FL390 to FL230 when the vertical stabiliser separated after a sharp turn; the a/c cr inverted into a timberland forest on Mount Lassen, causing a major forest fire (with 456 SAW); | |||||||||||||||
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