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Date: | Monday 13 June 1960 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Bell 47D-1 |
Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea de Chile |
Registration: | H-03 |
MSN: | 655 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Valdivia -
Chile
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Phase: | |
Nature: | Survey |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Loss of control when caught by a gust of wind at 30 ft during SAR flight in dam destruction desaster. Mainrotor hit fuselage and destroyed transmission lines. Capitán Nuñez. Argentine S-51 LQ-XXW also damaged by same cause, on same day.
Sources:
La Nación (Santiago) 15 June 1960, p5/16 June 1960, p8
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