SUMMARY REPORT ART 342 ACCIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00447R000100010072-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: March 24, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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REFUELING MISSION. TINE HO-UPS WEN: ACCOMPLISHED AT 35M IN SMOOTH
AIR. AT NO TIME DID THE ARTICLE ENTER AIRC AFT TURBULENCE, UPON
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COMPLETION OF THE LAST HOOKUP (ALL DRY) A BREAK AWAY WAS INSTITUTED.
THE ART DROPPED SACK AND MOVED TO THE RIGHT OF THE TANKER IAW TAC
DOCTRINE. ART THEN ACCELERATED AND TOOK UP A POSITION ON LIVE WITH
THE TANKER COCKPIT, TO THE RIGHT AND SLIGHTLY, HIGHER. AIRSPEED
M AT THIS TIME WAS SETWUN 219 AND 229 XTS IAS, FUEL LOAD WAS PRIMARILY
IN AUX TANKS AND SUMP. AFTER ABOUT A MINUTE A .IM9 WAS INITIATED
FOLLOWED dY A RIGHT TURN. AT THIS POINT THE LU WING FAILED AT THE
S ROOT AND THE AIRCRAFT DISINTEGRATED. THE PILOT '' 95FULLY EJECTED.
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2. FINDINGS THE INVESTIGATION DISCLOSED INADVERTENT OVER
STRESS OF THE AIRCRAFT PRIMARY STRUCTURE IN A NOLLING PULL-UP
MANEUVER.
COMMENTS
A. IT IS NOTE WORTHY THAT THE PILOT STAT1 "4' FORCES INVOLVED
IN THE TERMINAL NANYUVER WERE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN THOSE NORMALLY
ENCOUNTERED AT TAKE-OFF. THIS IS UNDERSTANDABLE WHERE CONTROL FORCES
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S. THE AIRSPEED WAS WELL WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE AIRCRAFT
DESTRUCTIVE FORCES CAN BE I ,ZED.
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SYMEYRICAL LOADING Of THE AIRCRAFT. A ROLLI t PULL-UP MANEUVER RESULtS
FACT THAT THE PUBLISHED STRENGTH DIAdUPS (5-3 THRU 5'6) ASSUME
? IN AS SYMETRICAL LOADING WHICH MAY REDUCE THE STRENGTH ENVELOPE BY AS
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