Collision over the Bermuda Triangle
823rd Air Division Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and 823rd Air Division Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker · Mid-air collision
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 11 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Aircraft 1 · Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
- Aircraft type
- Boeing KC-135
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 61-0319
- Operator
- 823rd Air Division
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From Homestead (Florida)To Homestead (Florida)
Aircraft 2 · Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
- Aircraft type
- Boeing KC-135
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 61-0322
- Operator
- 823rd Air Division
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Occupants
- Not stated
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- None · no survivors
- Route
- From Homestead (Florida)To Homestead (Florida)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The collision over the Bermuda Triangle was an aviation accident that occurred on Wednesday, 28 August 1963 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, when two Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker tanker aircraft of the US Air Force collided, killing 11 people.
Some authors link this air crash to one of the “mysteries” of the Bermuda Triangle.
Crash
Both tankers departed that day from Homestead Air Force Base and a few hours later arrived in an area 800 miles northeast of Miami. There they refuelled two Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bombers from Schilling Air Force Base, after which at 12:10 they reported returning to base. At 12:37 the crews reported passing checkpoint “B” 900 miles northeast of Miami, with an estimated landing time of 14:00. This was the last radio exchange with both aircraft. According to the statements of the B-47 bomber crews, the weather conditions at that time were good. When neither of the two KC-135As returned to Homestead at the scheduled time, a search for them was begun at 15 hours.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Столкновение над Бермудским треугольником” (revision 153377463, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Столкновение над Бермудским треугольником
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 153377463 · 2026-06-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q25383443
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Столкновение над Бермудским треугольником" (page 6223935, revision 153377463), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.