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| Date: | Sunday 8 October 1967 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-130B Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 61-2649 |
| MSN: | 3692 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
| Engine model: | Allison T56-A-7 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 23 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 24 km SE of Hue-Phu Bai Airport (HUI) -
 Vietnam
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hue-Phu Bai Airport (HUI/VVPB) |
| Da Nang Airport (DAD/VVDN) |
Crashed into a cloud-covered mountain in poor weather. The wreckage was found two days later about 150 feet below the summit of the 1850 feet high mountain.
Sources:
C130 Crash Kills 23 (Lincoln Evening Journal October 10, 1967)
Vietnam Air Losses : United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973 / Chris Hobson
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