From Social Security Administration, Death Master File, December 2007

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Name: Randolph Kishpaugh
Birth Date: 31 December 1949
Death Date: July 1974
Issuing State: Oregon
SSN: 544-58-2602


Name: William M Kishpaugh
Birth Date: 24 September 1924
Death Date: 03 April 2002
Issuing State: Pennsylvania
Residence at Death: Phoenix,Maricopa,Arizona 85050
SSN: 201-18-9595

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1974 07/27 OR David Wolfson & R Kishpaugh helicopter

Incident Name: A new fire on the Bear Springs RD, Mt Hood NF; it was less
than 10 miles from the Ripplebrook Heliport (where the helicopter had been
supporting firefighting efforts on the Kite Fire) to the new fire report
on the Bear Springs RD.
Date: July 27, 1974
Personnel:  2 lives lost
Age:
Agency/Organization: Corvalis Aero Service on contract with the US Forest
Service
Position:

Summary:
David Wolfson, 22, Asst Helitack Foreman, Mt Hood NF of Chicago IL
Randolph Kishpaugh, pilot, 24 of Corvalis OR

A second FS firefighter, David Kennedy,  was badly injured but survived.

On July 27, 1974, a helicopter carrying two FS fire personnel and a pilot 
lifted off from the Ripplebrook Heliport, Clackamas RD, Mt Hood NF, en
route to a new fire on the Bear Springs Ranger District. They previously
had been assigned to the Kite Fire. The helicopter turned the wrong way:
instead of heading down canyon over the river to gain altitude, it turned
uphill, hit the tree tops and fell back to the ground, killing the pilot
and David Wolfson and severely burning another Forest Service firefighter.

    July 27, 1974
    2 killed: David Wolfson and Randolph Kishpaugh; also injured another 
              FS firefighting employee
    Operator: Corvalis Aero Service on contract with the US Forest Service
    Type: helicopter - unknown
    Location: on takeoff from the Ripplebrook Heliport, Clackamas RD, 
              Mt Hood NF
    FAA Registration # unknown
    NTSB # none; the National Transportation Safety Board did not investigate 
                 this accident.

The accident was not reported in the Forest Service Fatal Aviation Accident
History 1974-2002 or in the Appendix of the Rotor Wing Accidents.

Article on the accident; the information about the fire (smoke check)
they were going to is not right. The helicopter had been working out of
the Ripplebrook Heliport on the Kite Fire, but at the time of the accident
it was responding to a new fire on the Bear Springs RD, Mt Hood NF; it was
less than 10 miles from the Ripplebrook Heliport to the new fire report.

USFS Heroes Memorial: David Mark Wolfson

Additional confirmation that David died on that date: David Mark Wolfson

Additional confirmation that Randolph died on that date: Randolph Kishpaugh
Randolph was survived by a spouse, Joanna.


Contributors to this article: Gordon Foster, FMO at Bear Springs at the
time of David's death; John Miller

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