Originally Posted by
bille1319
The stricken aircraft did try to get back to Tel Aviv but crashed.
Do you have a source for that?
I wondered if parachutes were available to the crew to give them some chance of survival, all be it a small one.
KC-135s carried parachutes for the first 50 years of operation. Nobody ever made use of one.
Looks like it picked off the HF antenna on the survivor's vertical stabilizer.
Pre-accident photos of the aircraft don't show a long-wire HF aerial.