Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 68-17179
The Army purchased this helicopter 0569
Total flight hours at this point: 00000352
Date: 03/12/1970
Incident number: 70031212.KIA
Unit: F/8 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While in Target Area this helicopter was Attacking at 0025 feet and 040 knots.
South Vietnam
UTM grid coordinates: AT837249 (To see this location on a map, go to https://legallandconverter.com/p50.html and search on Grid Reference 49PAT837249)
Helicopter took 1 hits from:
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (7.62MM)
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 01 DOI, 02 INJ . .
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
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, JSIDR, CASRP (Operations Report. Lindenmuth
New Format Data Base. Joint Services Incident Damage Report. Casualty Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
G SP4 PONCE BENITO ANDRADE KIA
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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