ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332171
Date: | Thursday 23 March 1967 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas AC-47D Spooky |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-48356 |
MSN: | 25617/14172 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | near Bien Hoa Air Base -
Vietnam
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Bien Hoa Air Base |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by machine gun fire on takeoff. The airplane crash-landed just beyond the airport perimeter. The AC-47D gunship was supposed to drop flares over an outpost to prevent it from being attacked at night.
Sources:
US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
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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