ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330040
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| Date: | Saturday 17 November 1973 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-10-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Air Vietnam |
| Registration: | XV-NIE |
| MSN: | 26355/14910 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 20 km NNW of Quang Ngai -
 Vietnam
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Saigon-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN/VVTS) |
| Quang Ngai Airport (XNG) |
A Douglas C-47B, XV-NIE, operated on a passenger flight from Saigon-Tan Son Nhat Airport to Quang Ngai Airport, Vietnam.
The flight took off at 00:35 with an ETA at Quang Ngai of 02:50 hours. While en route, the Quang Ngai was flooded. Attempts by Saigon ACC to contact the aircraft after 02:00 hours all failed.
The aircraft was found to have struck the nearly vertical wall of a mountain, at an elevation of about 400 m, 20 km NNW of Quang-Ngai. The location of the wreckage suggested that the flight crew got lost and flew too low in a mountainous area while attempting to reach the nearby airport of Chu Lai, 8 km ENE of the wreckage site.
Probable Causes:
Pilot factor - the pilot-in-command flew VFR in IMC in an attempt to divert to an alternative airport.
Contributing factor - Adverse weather conditions.
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