Date: | Thursday 11 January 1968 |
Time: | 09:57 |
Type: | Lockheed OP-2E Neptune |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 131436 |
MSN: | 426-5317 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Phou Louang Mountain -
Laos
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Nakhon Phanom RTAFB (KOP/VTUW) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Lockheed OP-2E Neptune operated on an acoustic buoy drop mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. At 9:57 AM radio contact with his aircraft was lost.
No trace of the aircraft was found. On 23 January an Air Force A-1 located the crash site on the north side of a cliff, 150 feet below the 4,583-foot ridge line.
Recovery of the remains did not begin until 1996 and was completed January through March 2002
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher vo-67.org Revision history:
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