ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 64618
Last updated: 29 December 2020
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| Date: | 06-DEC-2001 |
| Time: | 23:30 |
| Type: |  Bell UH-1N Iroquois |
| Owner/operator: | United States Marine Corps (USMC) |
| Registration: | 160440 |
| C/n / msn: | 31732 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 190 km SW of Kandahar -
 Afghanistan
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
A USMC UH-1N assigned to HMLA-269 at MCAS New River, North Carolina, crashed at an airstrip at "Camp Rhino", Dolangi, southern Afghanistan. The loss was not due to hostile action, but may have been by brown-out on take-off at night, which caused the helicopter to hit the ground, roll over and catch fire. The helicopter was attached to HMM-365, deployed aboard the USS Bataan (LHD 5).
Sources:
Scramble 278
http://web.archive.org/web/20160304100551/http://lang.sbsun.com/socal/terrorist/1201/07/terror10.asp
AFM February 2002, p73/July 2002, p75
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Sep-2012 07:00 | krasatpi | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Nov-2013 16:21 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Oct-2019 18:34 | TB | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Dec-2019 13:26 | TB | Updated [Time, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
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