Information on U.S. Army helicopter UH-1H tail number 67-17647
The Army purchased this helicopter 0768
Total flight hours at this point: 00000177
Date: 04/26/1969
Incident number: 69042633.KIA
Unit: B/158 AVN
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
for Air/land Assault , Hot Area.
While on Landing Zone this helicopter was Landing at UNK feet and UNK knots.
Classified
UTM grid coordinates: YD350069 (To see this location on a map, go to https://legallandconverter.com/p50.html and search on Grid Reference 48QYD350069)
Helicopter took 1 hits from:
Explosive Weapon; Non-Artillery launched or static weapons containing explosive charges. (RPG)
causing Fragmentation Damage.
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 01 WIA, 03 INJ . .
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
Burned
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense
Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis
Center Helicopter database. Also: OPERA, LNNF, CRAFX (Operations Report. Lindenmuth New
Format Data Base. Crash Facts Message. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
P WO1 ROMER JOHN M
P WO1 BROWNELL STEPHEN A WIA
CE SSG DORSEY JAMES R JR KIA
G SP5 OHERRON MICHAEL R
War Story:
Aircraft was struck by an RPG which landed in the crew chief section, killing SSGT James Dorsey. Steve Brownell was flying the aircraft when it was struck. He was wounded by shrapnel. John Romer and O'Herron were both lightly injured in the resulting crash. They were landing in the upper LZ of Don Ngai Mountain in the Northeastern A Shau Valley. This upper LZ would become Firebase Airborne, in time for supporting Operation Apache Snow (aka, Hamburger Hill).
This record was last updated on 06/28/2016
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