Date:	Saturday 10 November 1962
Time:	14:37
Type:	Douglas C-47B-25-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Air Vietnam
Registration:	XV-NID
MSN:	32822/16074
Year of manufacture:	1945
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	20 km NNW of Da Nang Airport (DAD) -   Vietnam
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Hue-Phu Bai Airport (HUI/VVPB)
Destination airport:	Da Nang Airport (DAD/VVDN)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Air Vietnam DC-3 took off from Hue at 0620 GMT for a flight to Da Nang. After some difficulties in establishing radio communications with Da Nang, the flight obtained weather conditions and runway in use at Da Nang. The DC-3 crew replied that they would report on the downwind leg of runway 35. Da Nang requested the plane's position and ETA, but received no reply. The wreckage was later found on a mountain at an elevation of 550 m, 19,6 km NW of Da Nang Airport.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident probably resulted from a navigational error in adverse meteorological conditions."

ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume I, Circular 71-AN/63 (71-73)

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