1LT DAVIS AS SECTION LEADER OF A FIRE TEAM OF AH-1GS WAS GIVEN A MISSION TO RECONNOITER 2 LANDING ZONES AND 2 PICKUP ZONES LOCATED IN VICINITY OF BASTOGNE FB. A LZ PREPARATION WAS TO BE FIRED BY HIS TEAM AND WAS SCHEDULED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE RECON. HE WAS DIRECTED TO LAND AT BASTOGNE FOR A BRIEFING PRIOR TO THE MISSION. HIS WING MAN EXPERIENCED DIFFICULTIES ON STARTING CAUSING A DELAY IN DEPARTING FOR THE MISSION. 1LT DAVIS LEFT HIS WING MAN WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO JOIN HIM AT BASTOGNE. HE LANDED ON THE UPPER LOGISTICS PAD AT BASTOGNE BETWEEN TWO AIRCRAFT WHICH WERE NOT RUNNING. HE SHUT HIS AIRCRAFT DOWN AND HURRIED TO THE BRIEFING. THIS PAD IS A PINNALCE APPROXIMATELY CIRCULAR IN DIMENSION WITH LITTLE ROOM TO MANEUVER. AFTER THE BRIEFING HE HURRIED OUT TO JOIN HIS WING MAN WHO HAD BY NOW ARRIVED AND WAS WAITING ON THE VIP PAD LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 50 METERS AWAY ON A DIFFERENT KNOLL. 1LT DAVIS GOT INTO THE AIRCRAFT AND STRAPPED IN WHILE HIS CO-PILOT WENT TO UNTIE THE MAIN ROTOR. THE AIRCRAFT THAT WAS PARKED TO THE LEFT OF THE AH-1G CRANKED AND DEPARTED. A SECOND AIRCRAFT, 68-15297 THEN LANDED IN A POSITION TO THE LEFT AND ADJACENT T O THE AH-1G. 1LT DAVIS SEEING 2 MEN BOARD THIS AIRCRAFT BELIEVED THIS AIRCRAFT TO BE LIGHT ON THE SKIDS AT FULL RPM AND ABOUT TO DEPART AND SO HE COMMMENCED TO CRANK. THE MAIN ROTOR BLADE HAD NOT BEEN RELEASED BY LT CHAMPION WHO LOOKED AT THE CLEARANCE AND DECIDED NOT TO RELEASE THE BLADE. SEVERAL PERSONS SIGNALED 1LT DAVIS TO CEASE CRANKING AND HE ACKNOWLEDGED WITH A NOD OF HIS HEAD AND ABORTED THE START BUT NOT BEFORE THE ENGINE RPM BEGAN TO BUILD. 1LT DAVIS'S STATEMENT INDICATES HE OBSERVED A HIGH 550 EGT AND 40% N. AS THE ENGINE RPM INCREASED, THE MAIN ROTOR BROKE LOOSE AND ROTATED INTO THE ROTOR PLANE OF THE ADJACENT SHIP 68-15297. THE UH-1H 68-15297 WAS AT FULL OPERATING RPM AND WAS AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF ONE MORE PASSENGER AFTER THE SUPPORTED BATTALION'S S-3 AND ARTY LNO HAD BOARDED. THE AIRCRAFT COMMANDER OF 68-15297 OBSERVED THE AH-1G START TO CRANK WITH HIS MAIN ROTOR TIED DOWN AND SIGNALED HIS TO ABORT. AFTER THE AH-1G PILOT NODDED HIS HEAD HE THEN RETURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE BRIEFING BY THE BATTALION S-3 UNTIL THE BLADES MADE CONTACT CAUSING THE ENTIRE SHIP TO SHUTTER AND VIBRATE INTO THE AIR. THE SHIP MOVED SEVERAL FEET TO THE LEFT BEFORE IT CAME TO REST ON THE EDGE OF THE PAD.\\
Information on U.S. Army helicopter AH-1G tail number 68-15101
The Army purchased this helicopter 0369
Total flight hours at this point: 00000800
Date: 04/23/70
Unit: B/4/77 ARA 101 ABN
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was REPAIRED IN THEATER
This was an Unknown mission
Unknown this helicopter was Unknown at 1500 feet and UNK knots.
South Vietnam
Helicopter took 3 hits from:
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (7.62MM)
Systems damaged were: N/R
The helicopter Continued Flight.
The aircraft was diverted prior to accomplishing any mission objectives.
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: JSIDR (Joint Services Incident Damage Report. )
Information on U.S. Army helicopter AH-1G tail number 68-15101
The Army purchased this helicopter 0369
Total flight hours at this point: 00000863
Date: 05/07/70
Unit: B/4/77 ARA 101 ABN
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was REPAIRED IN THEATER
for Close Air Support
While On Target this helicopter was Attacking at 1200 feet and 090 knots.
Unknown
Helicopter took 1 hits from:
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (12.7MM)
The helicopter was hit in the Bottom
Systems damaged were: STRUCTURE
The helicopter Continued Flight.
The aircraft was diverted prior to accomplishing any mission objectives.
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: DYNAL ()
The following is Goldbook
information on US Army helicopter AH-1G tail number 68-15101
It is provided here as an ESTIMATE of the history of this helicopter
and is not intended to be the final authority.
This helicopter was purchased by the US Army in 0369.
Please provide any additional information on this helicopter to the VHPA.
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