Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 04 MAY 1952 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47B-15-DK |
| Operator: | Société des Transports Aériens d’Extrême-Orient |
| Registration: | F-BEIB |
| C/n / msn: | 15116/26561 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 14 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Phan Thiet (Vietnam) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
The DC-3 was shot down by communist guerillas.
Sources:
» Volkskrant 05.05.1952 (p.1)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
