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HAI YEN, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1965-05. A RAAF TRANSPORT FLIGHT CARIBOU AIRCRAFT A4-173 BEING FITTED WITH A NEW STARBOARD WING. THE CARIBOU LANDED SHORT AND DAMAGED ITS UNDERCARRIAGE. WHILE UNDER REPAIR BY RAAF AND UNITED STATES ARMY TECHNICIANS IT WAS FURTHER DAMAGED WHEN AN AMERICAN SUPPLY PLANE DROPPING AMMUNITION PUT ONE CASE THROUGH THE STARBOARD WING. A NEW WING WITH AMERICAN MARKINGS WAS FLOWN IN BY HELICOPTER AND FITTED.
Three of the RAAF (R.T.F.V) men who were responsible for the recent successful recovery of a damaged RAAF Caribou (A4-173) from a delta airstrip (Hei Yen) near where Viet Cong forces were attacking ni
HA TIEN, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1965-05. A RAAF TRANSPORT FLIGHT CARIBOU A4-173 WITH BORROWED STARBOARD WING WITH AMERICAN MARKINGS. THE CARIBOU LANDED SHORT AND DAMAGED ITS UNDERCARRIAGE. WHILE UNDER REPAIR
HA TIEN, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1965-05. A CARIBOU AIRCRAFT STARBOARD WING BEING DELIVERED BY HELICOPTER. A RAAF TRANSPORT FLIGHT CARIBOU A4-173 LANDED SHORT AND DAMAGED ITS UNDERCARRIAGE. WHILE UNDER REPAIR
Hai Yen, Vietnam. 1965-05. An instrument fitter from RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (TFV) rewiring the instrument panel of Caribou aircraft A4-173. The plane had run off the end of the airfield and re
Hai Yen, Vietnam. 1965-05. Corporal Furze, RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (TFV), in front of Caribou aircraft A4-173 when it was being repaired. The plane had run off the end of the airfield and requi
Hai Yen, Vietnam. 1965-05-07. RAAF Caribou aircraft A4-173 in its resting place after landing short and running off the runway at Hai Yen. The accident required a major repair effort involving replace
Hai Yen, Vietnam. 1965-05. John Ray, 173rd Regiment US Army (left), Corporal Furze, RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (TFV) (centre), and another member of the RAAF fixing the instrument panel of Caribou
