Reference: The aircraft was painted "Lucky Duc" on May 12,1968 after the evacuation of troops from Kham Duc. I (Sam Kerro) was the Loadmaster on the plane that day and have a picture of our co-pilot painting the
Crash: near Bliss, ID. Fire in #2 engine, overheated turbine spacer.
Number 2 engine caught fire (overheated turbine spacer) at a cruise altitude of 26K ft AGL after departing Boise, Idaho. The aircraft commander directed the flight engineer to discharge an extinguisher bottle, when that failed to put out the fire, the second one was activated. However, the fire re-ignited and the aircraft had no further extinguishing capability. Crew attempted to divert to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (MUO). Number 2 engine disengaged from its mount, causing severe fuselage and wing damage. Wing eventually severed completely from the airframe, causing Sumit 38 to crash near Bliss, ID approximately 23 minutes after leaving Boise, killing all six crewmembers.
LTC Bob Buckhout A/C
2nd Lt Lance Dougherty Co-Pilot
Capt. Geoffrey Boyd Nav
CMSgt Jimmie Vail FE
MSgt Jay Kemp LM
SSgt Mike Scheidman LM
Reference: Lars Olausson Lockheed Hercules Production List 1954-2014 30th Edition, March 2012
NOTE: Exact dates in the database will be displayed as such (2012-07-14). All other dates are approximations or date the data was reported.
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