Information on U.S. Army helicopter CH-21C tail number 56-02079
Date: 03/21/1963
Incident number: 05976ACD Accident case number: 05976 Total Loss Accident
Unit: 81 TC CO
UTM grid coordinates: BR554098 (To see this location on a map, go to https://legallandconverter.com/p50.html and search on Grid Reference 49PBR554098)
Number killed in accident = 1 . . Injured = 3 . . Passengers = 5
costing 250540
Source(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Army Aviation Safety Center database.
Crew Members:
P CW RF OCAIN
CP W1 BL HOLLIS
CE E6 JUCKNIESS
G PFC DAVIS FLOYD ROBERT KIA
Passengers and/or other participants:
X2 UNK, PAX, 6
X2 UNK, PAX, 6
X2 UNK, PAX, 6
X2 UNK, PAX, 6
X2 UNK, PAX, 6
War Story:
Stars and Stripes reported the incident was "in the mountainous Dalat area about 160 miles northeast of Saigon." Dalat (grid ref BP235245) is in Tuyen Duc Province (code "12"), way south of Binh Dinh Province so location is actually unknown.
This record was last updated on 09/05/2018
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