Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 68-17169
The Army purchased this helicopter 0569
Total flight hours at this point: 00001443
Date: 09/19/1970
Incident number: 70091934.KIA
Unit: D/3/4 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was REPAIRED IN THEATER
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While in Operations Area this helicopter was at Hover at 0003 feet and 000 knots.
South Vietnam
Helicopter took 18 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 Bottom
Systems damaged were: MAIN ROTOR SYS, STRUCTURE, PERSONNEL
Casualties = 02 WIA . .
The helicopter made a Forced Landing. Aircraft was capable of one time flight.
The aircraft was diverted or delayed after completing some mission objectives.
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated:
Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: LNNF, JSIDR,
CASRP (Lindenmuth New Format Data Base. Joint Services Incident Damage Report. Casualty
Report. )
Crew Members:
OB SGT LEE MILAN LAVOY KIA
This record was last updated on 02/09/2002
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