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17 February 1988: A Tupolev Tu-134A, registration VN-A108 (built in 1976), crashed at Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi, Vietnam. [ 7] 12 January 1991: A Tupolev Tu-134, registration VN-A126, with 76 passengers on board crashed on final approach to Ho Chi Minh City. At 30 feet (9.1 meters) the Tupolev suddenly lost height and landed hard ...
Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled Vietnam Airlines flight which crashed on final approach to Pochentong International Airport in Cambodia on 3 September 1997. The Soviet -built Tupolev Tu-134B-3 airliner crashed approximately 800 metres (2,600 ft; 870 yd) short of the Phnom Penh runway, killing 65 of the 66 people on board.
Fatalities. 30. Survivors. 1. Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed on approach to Nha Trang Airport on 14 November 1992 during Cyclone Forrest. The aircraft was a Yakovlev Yak-40 registered VN-A449, a three-engined jet airliner built in the Soviet Union in 1976. [ 1] One passenger survived, while the other 24 passengers and six crew were killed.
On 4 April 1975, [ note 1] a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy participating in the first mission of Operation Babylift crashed on approach during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. The cause was ascribed to loss of flight control due to explosive decompression and structural failure. The accident marked the second operational ...
14. Vietnam Airlines Flight 831, a Tupolev Tu-134, crashed in a rice field near Semafahkarm Village, Tambon Khu Khot, Amphoe Lam Luk Ka, Pathum Thani, Thailand while operating a flight from Hanoi to Bangkok on 9 September 1988. The cause of the accident is undetermined; however, the pilots reported the aircraft may have been struck by lightning ...
Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 – On September 3, 1997, a Tupolev Tu-134B-3 operated by Vietnam's flag carrier Vietnam Airlines crashed onto the ground, skidded over dry rice paddies and exploded, just 800 meters from the runway. Only one survived.
Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, a Yak-40 flying from Ho Chi Minh City-Tan Son Nhat International Airport to the previously civilian Nha Trang Airport descended too low on approach, struck trees and crashed in bad weather killing all but one passenger. 17 May 1993
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other western countries (including Australia, France, West Germany, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon ), on April 3–26, 1975. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 ...