ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138642
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| Date: | Thursday 8 April 1965 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Hiller UH-12E |
| Owner/operator: | 845 Sqn FAA RN |
| Registration: | XS164. |
| MSN: | 2255 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Near Nangar Gaat, 3rd Division, Sarawak, Borneo -
 Malaysia
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Nangar Gaat, Sarawak, Borneo |
| Sibu, Brunei (WGBS) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
XS164 lost its tail rotor owing to severe vibration shortly after taking off from the battalion forward operating base at Nangar Gaat.
The tail rotor had been damaged on an earlier sortie, losing about 1 inch from one of the blades. Owing to the difficulty in obtaining a replacement blade at such a remote location, the pilot is reported to have attempted to rebalance the rotor by trimming an identical length off the undamaged blade.
The helicopter crashed inverted, into a river near Nangar Gaat, Sarawak, Borneo, killing the pilot, Lt John A.C. Morgan, Royal Navy.
At the time of the crash the aircraft was operating to (and from) a forward base at Sibu, Brunei (WGBS)
Sources:
1. http://albiefield.co.uk/Sarawak/nangagaat/nangagaat.html
2. http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1963-65.htm
3. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1965.htm
3. https://www.helis.com/database/cn/44/
4. http://web.archive.org/web/20140204015916/http://britains-smallwars.com/Borneo/ROH.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Sep-2011 02:04 | angels one five | Added |
| 22-Sep-2011 22:12 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 18-Jan-2012 01:38 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 17-Jan-2013 13:57 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2013 03:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2013 03:38 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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