| A large white twin-engine passenger jet The aircraft involved in the accident, taking off from Joint Base Andrews 6 months before the crash | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1 June 2009 |
| Summary | Entered low-altitude stall and bank; impacted ground, Spatial disorientation, and instrument failure |
| Site | Atlantic Ocean near waypoint TASIL 3°03′57″N 30°33′42″W / 3.06583°N 30.56167°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint |
| Operator | USAF |
| Flight origin | Joint Base Andrews |
| Destination | N/A (reconnaissance mission) |
| Occupants | 12 |
| Crew | 12 |
| Fatalities | 12 (all) |
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On the 1st of June, 2024, a Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint[a] was doing a scheduled international reconnaissance flight from Joint Base Andrews. The captains and the first officers failed attitude and airspeed indicators led to the pilots inadvertently stalling and overbanking the RC-135 Rivet Joint serving the flight. They failed to recover the plane from the stall and bank, and the plane crashed a residential area at 02:14 UTC, killing all 12 crew on board.
Rescue teams recovered the first major wreckage and two bodies from the sea within five days of the accident. The NTSB's investigation is still ongoing.
- ^ The Boeing RC-135 is a family of large reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing and modified by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems, and L3 Technologies, and used by the United States Air Force and Royal Air Force to support theater and national level intelligence consumers with near real-time on-scene collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.