ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 56474
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| Date: | Monday 4 December 1989 |
| Time: | 09:30 |
| Type: |  Boeing CH-47D Chinook |
| Owner/operator: | 501st AVN US Army |
| Registration: | 88-00092 |
| MSN: | M3266 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 19 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Camp Humphrey -
 South Korea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Camp Humphreys |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed, About 15 minutes into the flight traveling at approximately 90 knots, we flew into a cloud that had obstructed our vision like the windows had been painted. As it turns out, we were in direct line with the mountain peak that finally did our flight in. The aircraft was carrying two 12' x 9' containers that entangled into the trees before the pilots could react and pulled the aircraft downward into the tree line. This caused the rotor blades to be broken into pieces by the time the aircraft cleared the peak of the mountain. With no rotor blades left to provide lift, the aircraft fell about 300 feet on the other side of the mountain peak before it impacted the steep side of the mountain and rolled for 3 1/2 revolutions before the tail of the craft got hung upon a large rock that made up a portion of the landscape. My Name is Ken Visger and I was one of the 19 on board of this flight when it went down.
Sources:
usafserials
Images:
the day after the crash, onsight
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Mar-2010 12:55 | TB | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Jul-2014 19:41 | Ken_Visger | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 24-Feb-2020 11:53 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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