Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 68-17175
The Army purchased this helicopter 0569
Total flight hours at this point: 00001051
Date: 04/21/1971
Incident number: 71042121.KIA
Unit: E/82 ARTY 1 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was UNK
This was a Recon mission for Armed Recon
While in Operations Area this helicopter was Unknown at 0040 feet and 040 knots.
South Vietnam
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 KIA . .
The helicopter Continued Flight.
The aircraft was diverted prior to accomplishing any 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, CASRP (Lindenmuth New Format Data Base. Casualty Report. )
Crew Members:
CE SP4 SHAMBLIN KENNETH WAYNE KIA
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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