Information on U.S. Army helicopter CH-47A tail number 63-07910
Date: 11/18/1966
Incident number: H225ACD Accident case number: H225
Unit: C/228 ASHB 1 CAV
This was a Accident incident.
South Vietnam
Number killed in accident = 5 . . Injured = 0 . . Passengers = 0
costing 1134898
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Army Aviation Safety Center database. Also: OPERA (Operations Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
P CW2 LEACH JAMES WILLIS KIA
AC CW2 WAYMIRE BILLY JOE KIA
G SP4 BROWN CARL KIA
CE PFC ISELY MICHAEL GENE KIA
C SP5 SMOOT RAYMOND EUGENE KIA
Accident Summary:
ACFT CAME APART IN FLT CRASHED & BURNED LOST BOLT THAT ATTACHES AFT SPEED TRIM ACTUATOR TO SWASH PLATE ASSEMBLY
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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