Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 67-16566
The Army purchased this helicopter 0169
Total flight hours at this point: 00000385
Date: 07/21/1969
Incident number: 69072121.HEL
Unit: C/1/9 CAV 1 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While in Operations Area this helicopter was Target Marking at 0200 feet and UNK knots.
South Vietnam
UTM grid coordinates: YT146571 (To see this location on a map, go to https://legallandconverter.com/p50.html and search on Grid Reference 48PYT146571)
Helicopter took 1 hits from:
(SECONDARY EXPL)
causing Fragmentation Damage.
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 03 DOI . .
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
Burned
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense
Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis
Center Helicopter database. Also: OPERA, LNNF, CRAFX, CASRP (Operations Report. Lindenmuth
New Format Data Base. Crash Facts Message. Casualty Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
P WO1 ANDERSON JOHN ERNEST KIA
G SP4 DENNULL EDWARD MICHAEL KIA
PP WO1 KINK DAVID ROBERT INJ
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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