Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1957 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 53-0222 |
MSN: | 17004 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 45 km NE of Rome-Griffiss AFB, NY (RME) -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Springfield-Westover AFB, MA (CEF/KCEF) |
Destination airport: | Rome-Griffiss AFB, NY (RME/KRME) |
Narrative:The KC-97G of the 384th Air Refueling Squadron (AREFS) departed Westover AFB at 13:30 on a refueling training mission. The airplane crashed in the snow-covered Adirondack mountain foothills.
Sources:
Chronology of the 4050th Air Refueling Wing (AREFWG) Westover AFB, Massachusetts October 1955-April 1957 compiled by Tom Hildreth Images:
photo (c) Terry Pomichter; Adirondack Mountains, NY; 01 July 2011
photo (c) James & Kristina LaBarge; Adirondack Mountains, NY; 12 May 2012
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