Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 JAN 1975 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-123K Provider |
| Operator: | Air America |
| Registration: | ST-1 |
| C/n / msn: | 20074 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 9 km (5.6 mls) SW of Nha Trang (Vietnam)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Dalat/Cam-Ly, Vietnam |
| Nha Trang Airport (NHA/VVNT), Vietnam |
Shot down by a SA-7 missile. The wreckage was found four days later by an Air America Bell 204B
Sources:
» 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.
