Information on U.S. Navy helicopter UH-1B tail number 63-12931
The Army purchased this helicopter 1064
Total flight hours at this point: 00003362
Date: 09/15/1969
Incident number: 69091515.KIA
Unit: HA(L)-3
South Vietnam
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Also: OPERA (Operations Report. )
Summary: Crashed during a night scramble off the USS Harnett County in a rain squall in the Gulf of Thailand. The two pilots survived.
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
C AT1 ARNOLD ROBERT JOSEPH KIA
C ATN JOHNSON STEPHEN AYER KIA
This record was last updated on 09/07/2013
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