ofspacifica:South Vietnamese Chinook pilot Ba Van Nguyen crashes his helicopter into the South China
ofspacifica:South Vietnamese Chinook pilot Ba Van Nguyen crashes his helicopter into the South China Sea after hovering for 10 minutes while removing his flight suit after offloading his family and Co Pilot onto the USS Kirk on April 29th of 1975 during the evacuation of Saigon.The Chinook was too heavy and too large to land on the deck of the destroyer. Nguyen survived and worked for BoeingTaken from footage used in Last Days in Vietnam. -- source link
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