Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 66-07827
The Army purchased this helicopter 1067
Total flight hours at this point: 00000303
Date: 03/07/1968
Incident number: 68030707.KIA
Unit: C/7/17 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was UNK
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
Unknown this helicopter was Unknown at UNK feet and UNK knots.
South Vietnam
Helicopter took 2 hits from:
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (7.62MM)
The helicopter was hit in the Cockpit
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL, STRUCTURE
Casualties = 01 KIA . .
The helicopter Continued Flight.
The aircraft was diverted prior to accomplishing any mission objectives.
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated:
Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: LNOF, 80719,
CASRP, F2407, HUGHS (Lindenmuth Old Format Data Base. Casualty Report. )
Crew Members:
P 1LT NICELY HAROLD F JR RES
OB PVT CONSAVAGE RALPH EDWARD KIA
War Story:
Technically this helicopter belonged to C/7/17 CAV because the unit was not re-designated to F/8 CAV until 1 April 1968.
This record was last updated on 04/16/2003
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