What the records say
- When
- 13 Sep 1997
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 18.80° S, 11.30° E
- Description
- collision between USAF C-141B and German Air Force Tu-154M
- Deaths
- 33
- Injured
- 0
1997 Namibia mid-air collision
Collision between USAF C-141B and German Air Force Tu-154M
On 13 September 1997, a German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M observation aircraft and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141B Starlifter transport aircraft struck each other mid-air while cruising at 35,000 feet (11,000 m) off the coast of Namibia. As a result of the crash, all 33 people on board both aircraft were killed and both aircraft were destroyed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В 17:10 у берега Намибии сталкиваются в воздухе самолёты ТУ-154M компании Luftwaffe и C-141 Starlifter компании USAF”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page