ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 76915
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| Date: | 17-DEC-1994 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bell OH-58C Kiowa |
| Owner/operator: | US Army 4-501 AVN |
| Registration: | 71-20796 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Ipoh-Ri -
 North Korea
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The Kiowa with the call sign "Razorback 19" took off at 10:02 AM for a familiarization flight along the demilitarized zone (DMZ), but after about 40 minutes the pilots erroneously reported they were near Checkpoint 84 in South Korea while they were in fact about 10 miles north of the checkpoint and about 5 miles into North Korea. Eight minutes later the helicopter was taken under fire by the North Koreans and either struck by an air-to-surface missile or AAA fire. With a shattered canopy and a disabled engine, the pilot CWO Robert Hall made an emergency landing using auto-rotation and escaped the burning wreck. The co-pilot CWO David Michael Hilemon, a pilot for Apache attack helicopters, was fatally injured in the crash. Hall was taken prisoner by North Korean soldiers but returned to US control on 31 December 1994.
Wreckage from the Kiowa is exhibited in the D.P.R.K. War Museum at Pyongyang.
Sources:
Scramble
Flight International 16-22 August 1995
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Nov--0001 00:00 | ASN Archive | |
| 20-Mar-2011 11:45 | harro | Updated [Total fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2013 02:20 | Tetrapack | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Narrative] |
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