Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-13S tail number 63-09181
Date: 10/31/1967
Incident number: 67103131.KIA
Unit: D/1/4 CAV 1 INF
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was REPAIRED
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While in Operations Area this helicopter was at Level Flight at UNK feet and 070 knots.
South Vietnam
Helicopter took 30 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 Right Side
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL, COMM SYS, STRUCTURE
Casualties = 01 WIA, 01 KIA . .
The helicopter Continued Flight.
The aircraft was diverted prior to accomplishing any mission objectives.
QUAN LOI recovered the helicopter.
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: LNNF, FM232, CASRP (Lindenmuth New Format Data Base. Casualty Report. )
Crew Members:
P 1LT LEWIS GARRETT O RES
OB SP5 MULLER JAMES VAN NESS KIA
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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