ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed C-130B Hercules 60-0297 Kham Duc
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Date:Sunday 12 May 1968
Time:16:00
Type:Silhouette image of generic C130 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Lockheed C-130B Hercules
Operator:United States Air Force - USAF
Registration: 60-0297
MSN: 3600
First flight: 1961
Engines: 4 Allison T56-A-7
Crew:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Passengers:Fatalities: 149 / Occupants: 149
Total:Fatalities: 155 / Occupants: 155
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Kham Duc (   Vietnam)
Phase: Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Kham Duc Airstrip, Vietnam
Destination airport:?
Narrative:
On 12 May 1968, shortly after 12:00 hours, the U.S. forces decided to immediately extract all personnel from the beleaguered Kham Duc camp, because the North Vietnamese Army had been attacking the camp for over a day. Hercules 60-0297 was called in to assist in getting as many of the civilians out of Kham Duc as possible. The Hercules took on as many passengers as it could at took off immediately, while under an intense enemy mortar and small arms attack. Apparently the Hercules was hit because eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft shake violently out of control, then turn and crash in an eruption of smoke and fire in a nearby ravine, approximately 1 mile from the end of the airstrip.

Classification:
Shot down from the ground
Loss of control

Sources:
» Task Force Omega Inc.


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