Bio & Incident Details
Age: 30
Tour: 8 years
Badge # Not available
Military veteran
Cause: Aircraft accident
Location: Missouri
Incident Date: 7/23/1973
Weapon: Not available
Suspect: Not available
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Agent Elmer Heggen and Agent Henry Tibbs were killed in an aircraft accident while en route to testify in a court martial at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The court martial was for a drug dealer the two agents had arrested in Phu Bai, Vietnam. The case had been reopened due to a technicality and the subject was at Fort Leavenworth. Agent Heggen and Agent Tibbs were stationed at the Fort Campbell CID field office and were flying Ozark Airlines to St. Louis, Missouri, for a connecting flight. Ozark Airlines Flight 809 crashed in a severe storm on approach to the Lambert-St. Louis Airfield.
Agent Heggen had served with the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command for eight years and had previously served with the United States Army in the Vietnam War. He was survived by his wife, son, daughter and three sisters.
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