| Date: 10 November 1967 |
| Aircraft type: F-4C Phantom |
| Serial Number: 64-0669 |
| Military Unit: 389 TFS, 366 TFW |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Da Nang |
| Name(s): |
| Maj James Sheppard Morgan (KIA) |
| 1Lt Charles Jerome Honeycutt (KIA) |
| Aircraft type: F-4C Phantom |
| Serial Number: 64-0834 |
| Military Unit: 389 TFS, 366 TFW |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Da Nang |
| Name(s): |
| Lt Col Kelly Francis Cook (KIA) |
| 1Lt James Alan Crew (KIA) |
| Two Phantoms took off from Da Nang for an MSQ-77 drop above cloud on a target near Dong Hoi. The MSQ-77 radar bombing technique was similar to the Marines’ use of the TPQ-10 ground-based radar. The aircraft climbed to about 26,000 feet and were tracked on radar but the weather proved unsuitable for their primary target so they were diverted to a secondary target. Radio and radar contact was lost when the aircraft (both with call sign Baffle) were about 10 miles southeast of Dong Hoi just at the time when the aircraft were to commence their bombing run on the target. Although a North Vietnamese general was quoted in a journal article stating that two F-4s were shot down on this day by a women’s militia unit and two airmen were captured, none of the four airmen appear to have survived. The USAF records the loss as probably being due to a mid-air collision although there is little evidence for this theory. In March 1991 the US authorities received remains that were later identified as being those of 1Lt Honeycutt. |
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