1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash
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Aviation accidents and incidents in KansasHistory of Wichita, KansasJanuary 1965 events in the United States
On 16 January 1965, a U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in the central United States, in a neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, near McConnell Air Force Base. This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members on board the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground.This accident is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Kansas. It is also the second-deadliest aircraft accident in the United States involving victims on the ground, after the Green Ramp disaster in 1994, which killed 24 people on the ground.
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Piatt Street 2065
67214 Wichita
Kansas, United States
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