ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330099
Date: | Wednesday 5 September 1973 |
Time: | 17:10 |
Type: | Boeing 727-121C |
Owner/operator: | Air Vietnam |
Registration: | XV-NJC |
MSN: | 19819/516 |
Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 62 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | OT |
Location: | near Bangkok -
Thailand
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK/VTBD) |
Destination airport: | Saigon-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN/VVTS) |
Narrative:About fifteen minutes after takeoff from Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport, while flying at 15000 feet, an explosion occurred in the galley of the airplane. Two passengers and a stewardess were injured.
The Boeing 727 returned safely to Bangkok.
Initially it was thought a bomb had exploded in the galley. A preliminary investigation by Royal Thai Air Force personnel however showed it was a mechanical defect in a galley broiler that caused the explosion.
Sources:
The Telegraph - Sep 5, 1973 Beaver County Times - Sep 10, 1973 Thai Aviation History website Flight International 20-9-1973
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