ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332027
Date: | Sunday 8 October 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed C-130B Hercules |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 61-2649 |
MSN: | 3692 |
Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
Engine model: | Allison T56-A-7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 23 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 24 km SE of Hue-Phu Bai Airport (HUI) -
Vietnam
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Hue-Phu Bai Airport (HUI/VVPB) |
Destination airport: | Da Nang Airport (DAD/VVDN) |
Narrative:Crashed into a cloud-covered mountain in poor weather. The wreckage was found two days later about 150 feet below the summit of the 1850 feet high mountain.
Sources:
C130 Crash Kills 23 (Lincoln Evening Journal October 10, 1967)
Vietnam Air Losses : United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973 / Chris Hobson Revision history:
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