Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-58A tail number 68-16785
The Army purchased this helicopter 1269
Total flight hours at this point: 00000001
Date: 03/27/1970
Incident number: 70032727.KIA
Unit: 520 TC BN
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While on Landing Zone this helicopter was Unknown at UNK feet and UNK knots.
South Vietnam
UTM grid coordinates: YD293345
Helicopter took 2 hits from:
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (7.62MM)
The helicopter was hit in the Cockpit
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 02 KIA . .
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
Destroyed by friendly forces
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense
Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis
Center Helicopter database. Also: OPERA, LNNF, JSIDR, JSIDR, CRAFX, FM386, CASRP (Operations
Report. Lindenmuth New Format Data Base. Joint Services Incident Damage Report. Crash Facts
Message. Casualty Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
P WO1 QUICK RALPH RICHARD JR KIA
OB LTC BENOSKI JOSEPH JR KIA
This record was last updated on 05/25/1998
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