Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash, May 12, 1968 (155 killed)
Lockheed C-130 Hercules accident on May 12, 1968 near Khâm Đức Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam with 155 fatalities. Cause: Shot down by enemy fire while...
- Date: May 12, 1968
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Location: Khâm Đức Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam
- Fatalities: 155
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: Shot down by enemy fire while taking off from Kham Duc during an evacuation, then crashed in a ravine near the airstrip and burned.
A USAF Hercules transport was shot down by North Vietnamese forces shortly after taking off from Kham Duc on 12 May 1968, during an enemy assault on the base. It went out of control, crashed and burned, and all 155 people aboard, South Vietnamese soldiers with their wives and children, were killed. It was among the deadliest aircraft losses of the war.