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Casualty Info
Home Town Detroit
Last Address Detroit, Michigan
Casualty Date Nov 30, 1967
Cause Non Hostile- Died while Missing
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Binh Dinh (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery - Detroit, Michigan
Wall/Plot Coordinates 31E 015 Plot Sec L Lot 545 Space 6
1st Lt. Diane Orlowski was trained as a nurse at the Hurley School of Nursing (Hurley Medical Center, Flint, Michigan) (1963-1966).
She was passenger who was killed in a crash with several other medical personnel and aircrew aboard a C-7B Caribou (tail number 62-4175), 458th TAS enroute from Pleiku to Qui Nhon.
Twenty two passengers and four air crew were killed in the crash.
Description: A C-7 Caribou crashed during a routine air transport flight in South Vietnam. As the aircraft approached Qui Nhon the pilot was advised that the weather at the airfield had fallen below safety minimal. He replied that he would proceed to Nha Trang where the weather was better but the aircraft hit a mountain at 1,850 feet about five miles south of Qui Nhon. The weather at the time consisted of low cloud and rain that reduced visibility to about two miles. The four crew and 22 passengers, including two US civilians, were killed in the accident.