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70-15067 for D/2/1 CAV A/C crashed on West Ft.
Hood. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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Date posted on this site:
03/10/2024
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Bob was our 70-41 class president and was
assigned along with me and four others to Ft. Hood
after graduation.
We had just recently acquired OH-58A's, and one
late afternoon he was tasked with transporting 3
commissioned officers to a tank table. While
waiting for these guys he climbed in the back to
take a nap, and unbeknownst to him weather moved
in.
By then it was almost dark and after takeoff he
went inadvertent IMC and kept climbing until he
came out on top at 5,500'. Obviously the -58 is
not an IFR aircraft and all we had was the basic
"tactical" instrument ticket. A Huey with an IP
was sent up in a desperate effort to try to help
him get down by flying formation IFR!
I was on the Huey that found the wreckage the next
morning. We were told he went inverted and the
engine quit before they hit. He had plowed
through a hundred feet of brush and there was no
post-crash fire. It was a multi-fatality crash.
Bob was a great guy.
From: CW4 Richard 'Rick' Lynn