Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 68-17203
The Army purchased this helicopter 0569
Total flight hours at this point: 00000210
Date: 11/25/1969
Incident number: 69112525.KIA
Unit: D/3/5 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was a Recon mission for Armed Recon
While in Target Area this helicopter was Attacking at 0020 feet and 060 knots.
South Vietnam
Helicopter took 3 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 Right Side
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL, COMM SYS, STRUCTURE
Casualties = 01 WIA, 01 KIA . .
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
Additional crash damage
VINH LONG recovered the helicopter.
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, DYNAL, CASRP (Operations Report. Lindenmuth
New Format Data Base. Casualty Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
CE SP5 PADIER WILTON JR KIA
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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