Accident
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 13 MAR 1975 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner |
| Compagnie: | Royal Air Lao |
| Immatriculation: | XW-TFP |
| Numéro de série: | 1998 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1940 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 2 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 0 |
| Total: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 2 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | at an unknown location (Laos) |
| Phase de vol: | Inconnu (UNK) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Aéroport de départ: | Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG/VHHH), Hong-Kong |
| Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT), Laos |
An aircraft was reported missing on this date while on a flight from Hong Kong to Vientiane. MacAlan Thompson reported that a Stratoliner was forced to carry out a controlled crash-landing in a river. Captain Jimmy Lieu and the copilot were held prisoner by the communist Pathet Lao for several months then released about May 1975.
Other sources claim Curtiss C-46 XW-PMF (or HS-SKD), c/n reported 22561, was reported missing in the same period on the same flight. Since Stratoliner XW-TFP was seen in the Mekong river, near the Laos-Thailand border in 1986, this is probably the aircraft that "disappeared".
Sources:
» AeroTransport Data Bank
» MacAlan Thompson
Photos
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport et Vientiane-Wattay Airport est de 1298 km (811 miles).
La distance entre Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport et Vientiane-Wattay Airport est de 1298 km (811 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
