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Date: 15 April 1968
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 51-7480
Military Unit: 19 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Bien Hoa
Name(s):
1 pilot, name unknown (Survived)

As a Bird Dog was taking off its undercarriage collapsed causing one wing to strike the ground and igniting one of the aircraft’s marker rockets. The aircraft came to rest but the wing caught fire and the aircraft was burnt out.

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