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Date: 9 May 1968
Aircraft type: O-2A Skymaster
Serial Number: 68-6858
Military Unit: 20 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Da Nang
Name(s):
1Lt Blackburn (Survived)
SSgt Haggerty (Survived)

The 20th TASS lost another aircraft on the same day when an O-2 ran out of fuel during a photographic reconnaissance mission. Both crew survived the subsequent crash-landing on a beach and were rescued by a Da Nang HH-43B flown by Capt David J Jogerst who had rescued Maj L D Tyrell when his A-4E Skyhawk went down earlier on the 9th.

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