Information on U.S. Army helicopter UH-1B tail number
The Army purchased this helicopter 0765
Total flight hours at this point: 00001278
Date: 04/23/1968
Incident number: 680423131ACD Accident case number: 680423131 Total loss or fatality Accident
Unit: 15 TC 1 CAV
The station for this helicopter was Bien Hoa in
Number killed in accident = 6 . . Injured = 0 . . Passengers = 5
costing 454788
Source(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Army Aviation Safety Center database.
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
P CW2 CROCKETT JAMES BRANNAH KIA
PX SP5 DAVIS THOMAS JOEL KIA
PX SP4 RAINBOLT JAMES EDWARD KIA
Passengers and/or other participants:
SGT OGLESBY RONALD, AR, PX, KIA
CIV MASKEW, , PX, KIA
CIV PRIGAN, , TO, KIA
Accident Summary:
The aircraft crashed and burned. The lower planetary system failed as the result of failure of 7 or 8 planetary gear bearings. The primary failure was probably the assow/cage or roller failure of one or more planetary gear bearings causing overload of the sungear teeth resulting in main transmission lower planetary gear system failure
This record was last updated on 09/20/1998
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