| Date: 26 September 1971 |
| Aircraft type: OV-10A Bronco |
| Serial Number: 67-14664 |
| Military Unit: 19 TASS, 504 TASG |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Bien Hoa |
| Name(s): |
| 1Lt Lansford E Trapp (Survived) |
| Sgt Chap Khorn (Survived) |
| A FAC (call sign Rustic) was controlling an air strike about 10 miles northwest of Kampong Cham in Cambodia when the aircraft was hit by ground fire. The target was a cluster of four 12.7mm anti-aircraft guns and the Bronco was hit at 3,500 feet and burst into flames. Both the crew ejected safely and were rescued by a HH-53C helicopter flown by Lt Cdr Joseph L Crow of the US Coast Guard. The observer was a Cambodian Army officer. Lt Trapp eventually flew more than 700 hours as a FAC in Southeast Asia and later flew the A-7D, F-4E and the F-16A. He later commanded the 355th and 366th Wings and the Twelfth Air Force before becoming vice commander of PACAF in September 1999 as a Lieutenant General. |
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