Helicopter OH-58A 68-16912


Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-58A tail number 68-16912
The Army purchased this helicopter 0370
Total flight hours at this point: 00000275
Date: 09/15/1970
Incident number: 70091515.KIA
Unit: C/3/17 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While in Operations Area this helicopter was at Level Flight at 0050 feet and 050 knots.
South Vietnam
UTM grid coordinates: XD954545 (To see this location on a map, go to https://legallandconverter.com/p50.html and search on Grid Reference 48QXD954545)
Helicopter took 6 hits from:
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (12.7MM)
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 01 WIA, 02 KIA . .
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, FM385, FM386, CASRP (Operations Report. Lindenmuth New Format Data Base. Joint Services Incident Damage Report. Casualty Report. )
Loss to Inventory

Crew Members:
OB SGT FREEMAN DAVID FRANKLIN KIA
CE PFC MEADOWS LEE DAVID KIA

This record was last updated on 06/04/2002


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