CH-3E
Long Tien, Laos
Jan 1970

The incident took place in January 1970 on the Long Tien (L98) runway.  The helicopter had requested permission to hover taxi across the runway.  With the language issue the problem started when the tower gave a Lao T-28 clearance to takeoff.  The helicopter was hovering mid runway when the T-28 came over the hump in…

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