ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 56471
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Date: | Monday 25 February 1980 |
Time: | afternoon |
Type: | Boeing CH-47C Chinook |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Aviation |
Registration: | 68-15993 |
MSN: | B.585 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kirchberg an der Jagst (BWü) -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Nürnberg (EDDN) |
Destination airport: | Schwäbisch Hall |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed in woods along highway BAB 6.
Was on a maintenance test flight for installation of the number one engine. At approximately 500 feet, while conducting the turbine engine analysis check (TEAC), the combining transmission phasing mechanism decoupled, resulting in rotor system dephasing and blade meshing. The forward and aft transmissions, and rotor systems separated in flight. The aircraft subsequently crashed into a pine forest and was totally destroyed.
Killed were: CW3 Randall G. Davis; CW3 Gary L. McKelvy; Sgt. Rick A. Barrett; SP4 Malcom R. Webb and SP4 Sean W. Dorsey.
* FATALITIES: Baugher says - all 5 onboard killed.
Sources:
http://www.hohenlohe-ungefiltert.de/?p=277 http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1968.html (five killed)
Hamburger Abendblatt 26.2.1980, p18 (all four killed)
http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/ https://www.dobsearch.com/death-records Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Apr-2010 10:50 |
TB |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Source] |
01-Aug-2010 03:40 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
10-Jan-2013 11:45 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
10-Jan-2013 11:46 |
TB |
Updated [Source] |
26-Mar-2013 12:46 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Time, Narrative] |
11-Oct-2015 08:49 |
RodgerAsai |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
19-Apr-2017 06:57 |
Anon. |
Updated [Destination airport] |
28-Oct-2019 21:49 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
07-Nov-2022 17:28 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
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