More detail on this person: UH-1A crashed
shortly after takeoff from Hunt Stage Field at Ft.
Rucker with WOC T.C. Bridges.
08 NOV 68 WOC Larry L. Breaden [Student Pilot]
and WOC Thomas C. Bridges [Student Pilot] and IP
injured at Fort Rucker, Alabama in USAAVNS.
The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from
Hunt Stagefield at Ft. Rucker after experiencing
an engine failure. IP was in full control of
emergency landing until they hit power lines
during the flare which flipped the A/C upside
down. It then burst into flames.
FORT RUCKER Copter Crashes; 1 Dies; 2 Hurt
FT. RUCKER, Ala. (AP) - One man was killed and
two others injured in the crash of an Army
helicopter shortly after takeoff at this huge Army
base.
Army officials at Ft. Rucker identified the dead
man Saturday was WO candidate Larry L. Breaden,
20, of Albuquerque, N.M.
They said the HU'1 copter had just take off Friday
from Hunt Stage Field at the base when it hurtled
to the ground.
The injured men, one identified as CWO-2 Jeffrey
D. Halliday, 21, of Daleville, Ala., the other
still unidentified, were flown to Columbus, Ga.,
Medical Center.
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