Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 12 MAR 1967 |
| Type: | Lockheed C-130E Hercules |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 63-7772 |
| C/n / msn: | 3838 |
| First flight: | 1963 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | An Khe (Vietnam)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | An Khe Airport, Vietnam |
| ? |
Crashed when the crew's vision was obscured by dust from the rotor downwash of an Army Chinook transport helicopter.
Sources:
» Vietnam Air Losses : United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973 / Chris Hobson
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
