CASE 1402-0-01

NARRATIVE

ON 6 MARCH 1969, CAPTAIN JOHN T. MCDONNELL AND FIRST LIEUTENANT RONALD D. GREENFIELD WERE THE CREW ABOARD AN AH-LG HELICOPTER IN A FLIGHT OF TWO-AIRCRAFT. THE HELICOPTER, SERIAL NUMBER 67-15845, WAS HIT BY GROUND ],IRE AND CRASHED IN THE VICINITY OF GRID COORDINATES ZC177968, APPROXIMATELY 50 KILOMETERS SOUTHEAST OF HUE AND THREE KILOMETERS SOUTHEAST OF THON THUY CAM, THUA THIEN-HUE (FORMERLY THUA THIEN) PROVINCE.. ON 7 MARCH 1969, SEARCH AND RESCUE FORCES FOUND THE WRECKAGE AND RESCUED LIEUTENANT GREENFIELD. HE WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND COULD NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INCIDENT OR THE FATE OF CAPTAIN MCDONNELL. A GROUND TEAM SEARCHED THE WRECKAGE AND FOUND CAPTAIN MCDONNELL'S HELMET UNDAMAGED, ALONG WITH OTHER ARTICLES OF HIS PERSONAL EQUIPMENT. ADDITIONALLY, HIS SEAT BELT ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT WAS UNBUCKLED AND THE STRAPS PLACED NEATLY OVER THE SEAT. THE GROUND TEAM CONDUCTED A DETAILED SEARCH OF THE AREA BUT COULD NOT LOCATE CAPTAIN MCDONNELL.

1. WHAT UNIT AND INDIVIDUALS CAPTURED CPT MCDONNELL?

2. WHEN AND WHERE DID HE DIE?

3. WHAT BECAME OF HIS REMAINS?

Case Narrative passed to the VNOSMP

during the 28-30 August 1989 Technical

Meeting in Hanoi