Faulty Radio Beacon Cited in Lebanon Plane Crash Cause
NE airlines flight 946 crashed near Moose Mountain in fog and drizzle after pilots reported instrumental readings over the beacon. Witnesses described deviant VOR signals and readings suggesting the beacon contributed to the deadly instrument approach error.
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Lebanon
Boston
Eral Board of Inquiry
Northeast Flight 946
Richard Preston
National Transportation Safety Board
Preston
A. A. Bedley
Joseph A. LaPalma Jr
Trans - East Airlines
Moose Mountain
LaPalma
NTSB
Sumner Atherton Jr
Jerome E. Birney
Northeast Airlines
The
Airlines Pilots Association
Federal Aviation Authority
Wilcox Electric Co
Robert Y. Kimball
Amos Tuck Business School
Dartmouth College
Betty Jo Frail
Viet Cong Attacks Two Outposts Near Saigon
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops attacked two allied outposts in Tay Ninh Province near the Cambodian border and shelled the U.S. Army headquarters at Long Binh. U.S. air power retaliated as 9th Infantry rivercraft units faced ambush in the Mekong Delta. One American was killed and 13 wounded in the river convoy assault. at Long Binh two were killed and two wounded.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S. Army
Tay Ninh
Cambodia
Vietnam
Long Binh
Mekong Delta
U.S
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
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