Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 08 APR 2008 |
| Time: | ca 09:30 |
| Type: | Antonov 26 |
| Operator: | Vietnam Air Force |
| Registration: | 265 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Hanoi (Vietnam)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport (VVGL), Vietnam |
| Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport (VVGL), Vietnam |
Crashed in a rice field in Ta Thanh Oai commune in Thanh Tri, an outlying district of Hanoi.
Sources:
» Scramble 389
» Military plane crashes near Vietnam's capital, 5 die (Xinhua, 8-4-2008)
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Distance from Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport to Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport to Hanoi-Gia Lam Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
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.
