Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 APR 1974 |
| Time: | 10:39 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | Air America |
| Registration: | N389EX |
| C/n / msn: | 251 |
| First flight: | 1969 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Sala Phou Koun (Laos) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Long Tieng Airstrip, Laos |
| Sala Phou Koun Airstrip, Laos |
Overran and nosed over after landing on a short strip.
Events:
Sources:
» NTSB
» The aircraft of Air America / by Dr. Joe F. Leeker
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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.
