55-0056
We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- January 3, 1973Accident
While flying over Vinh in North Vietnam, the airplane was hit by a SA-2 surface-to-air missile. The captain decided to evacuate the target area but with two engines out of service, electric and hydraulic systems out, he ordered the crew to abandon the aircraft and to bail out. The airplane crashed into the Gulf of Tonkin and all six crew members, wounded, were evacuated by the crew of a USAF HH-53 helicopter and USMC CH-46 helicopter. Crew: Lt Col Gerald Wickline, pilot, Cpt William "Bill" F. Mi