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Date: | Wednesday 28 March 1973 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bell 47G |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | YV-C-GAC |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Salvation, Edo. Bolívar -
Bolivia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | External load operation |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:This helicopter was carrying two (2) fuel drums in a sling undernearth, when it experience an in flight engine failure. The pilot could not eject the load, and the helicopter was destroyed after impacting with a tree, at low altitude, falling to the ground.
CREW: One only, Capt. Eddy Marin was killed in the impact
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110122042952/http://www.rotorspot.nl:80/yv.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20120311202000/http://www.fortunecity.com/olympia/jordan/568/41.html
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Oct-2011 14:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
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