Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker crash, Dec 19, 1964 (5 killed)

Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker accident on December 19, 1964 near Stephenville Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada with 5 fatalities.

A Boeing Stratotanker on a local night training flight from Stephenville landed too far down runway 09 with a tailwind component on 19 December 1964. The crew could not stop within the remaining runway, and the aircraft overran, struck approach lights and came to rest in a pond. All five crew members were killed.

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