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Although this is not one of our EC-47's, the results of such an impact would
have been the same. If I remember correctly, this was a psychological warfare
bird. It was out of Nha Trang. I had a friend aboard that had swapped his day
of some detail to the guy who was scheduled to fly it, for the flying duty.
And, again to the best of my memory, the story I heard was a fighter pilot saw
it go down in a tight spiral, hitting on the edge of a cliff. Parts went into
the jungle an parts went into the South China Sea at the base of the bluff.
Needless to say, there were no survivors. My opinion, for what it is worth, is
that the right wing seperated just outboard of the right engine. My reasoning
is how well the wing section is compared to the rest of the aircraft. It looks
as if it just floated down like a leaf. And I may be way off base, never did
hear what the outcome of the investigation was.
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