Incident
During the Linebacker II mission over North Vietnam, an aircraft flying from U-Tapao Naval Air Station was shot down while overflying the Hanoi area. The attacker was a pilot of a North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighter. The aircraft crashed in the district of Giáp Nhị in Hanoi.
Crew
The aircraft carried six crew members:
- Captain Robert John Morris Jr., pilot (killed)
- 1st Lieutenant Robert Markham Hudson, copilot
- 1st Lieutenant Duane Paul Vavroch, navigator
- Colonel Michael Harold La Beau, radio navigator
- Captain Nutter Jerome Wimbrow III, electronic warfare officer (killed)
- Master Sergeant James Raymond Cook, air gunner
Two crew members were killed in the incident; the remaining four were rescued and taken as prisoners of war.
Aftermath
All four captured crew members became prisoners of war. The official probable cause of the loss was determined to be enemy fire from the MiG-21.