Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 03 JUL 1965 |
| Type: | Grumman HU-16B Albatross |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-058 |
| C/n / msn: | G-136 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Gulf of Tonkin (Pacific Ocean) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Crashed 120 miles off the North Vietnamese coast.
Sources:
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
