ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 87322
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Date: | Saturday 7 April 2001 |
Time: | 15:30 LT |
Type: | Mil Mi-17-1V (Mi-8MTV-1) |
Owner/operator: | SFC Vietnam |
Registration: | VN-8415 |
MSN: | 96168 |
Year of manufacture: | 1993 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Thanh Tranh, Bo Tranh, Quang Binh -
Vietnam
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Vinh via Dong Hoi |
Destination airport: | Hue |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The helicopter, carrying members of Full Account, a group searching for the remains of U.S. troops missing in action during the Vietnam War, crashed into a mountainside in heavy fog.
Sources:
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2002/2002 Air Forces Monthly June 2001, p76
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2564761/ceremony-remembers-us-vietnamese-personnel-killed-in-2001-helicopter-crash/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Jan-2011 16:03 |
krasatpi |
Added |
25-Jan-2013 08:45 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
25-Jan-2013 12:33 |
TB |
Updated [Operator] |
08-Apr-2021 07:54 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Source] |
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