BYTHEWAY, FRANK L.

Name: Frank L. Bytheway
Rank/Branch: Civilian
Unit: NAS Cubi Point
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record:
Date of Loss: 02 October 1969
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 175402N 1073602E
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C2A "Trader" Cargo Aircraft
Refno: 2004

Other Personnel In Incident: Terry L. Beck; Richard W. Bell; Michael L.
Bowman; Rolando C. Dayao; Donald C. Dean; Herbert H. Dilger; Carl J.
Ellerd; James J. Fowler; Roy G. Fowler; Leonardo M. Gan; Paul E. Gore;
William D. Gorsuch; Rayford J. Hill; Delvin L. Kohler; Howard M. Koslosky;
Robert B. Leonard; Richard A. Livingston; Ronald W. Montgomery; William R.
Moore; Paul K. Moser; Kenneth M. Prentice; Fidel G. Salazar; Keavin L.
Terrell; Michael J. Tye; Reynaldo R. Viado

REMARKS:

Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.
Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published
sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK.

SYNOPSIS: Frank L. Bytheway was a civilian working at Cubi Point Naval
Air Station. On October 2, 1969 a C2A "Trader" cargo aircraft from
Reserve Cargo Squadron 50 was transferring crewmen from the Naval Air
Station Cubi Point, Republic of the Philippines to the USS Constellation
on station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Frank Bytheway was a passenger on the
aircraft.

The C2A was inbound and in the hands of the marshall air controller up to
10 nautical miles from the ship when it went off the radar scopes.
Helicopter search and rescue was initiated from the ship. The helicopter
began sighting an oil slick and debris. No bodies were found of the 26
crew and passengers. Recovered debris indicated that the aircraft was in
a releatively high speed nose down, right wing down impact with the water
or a possible right wing failure before impact.

Frank Bytheway is listed as a non-battle death, body not recovered. He is
not carried on the military lists of missing.

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