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| Date: | Monday 31 October 1966 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fairchild UC-123B Provider |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 54-597 |
| MSN: | 20046 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | 13 km W of Lai Khe -
 Vietnam
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Shot down by small arms fire while on a defoliation mission. The pilot made a forced landing on top of jungle underbrush that was about 20-30 feet high. The airplane was stripped off radios etc. and blown up using Claymore mines.
Sources:
E-mail from Lee Helle, 29 March 2006
Vietnam Air Losses : United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973 / Chris Hobson
Images:
photo (c) U.S. Air Force; 1957; (publicdomain)
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