| Date: 29 April 1970 |
| Aircraft type: OV-10A Bronco |
| Serial Number: 68-3824 |
| Military Unit: 19 TASS, 504 TASG |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Bien Hoa detached to Cu Chi |
| Name(s): |
| Capt Wendell Lee Brown (KIA) |
| 1Lt Jose Hector Ortiz (KIA) |
| The 19th TASS maintained a small detachment of aircraft at an airstrip at Cu Chi about 15 miles northwest of Saigon. One of the detachment’s Broncos was taking off for a FAC mission when it was hit in the tail by small arms fire. The aircraft crashed about four miles southwest of Cu Chi and neither of the crew survived. |
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