ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331370
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Date: | Saturday 20 September 1969 |
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Type: | Douglas C-54D-10-DC (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Air Vietnam |
Registration: | XV-NUG |
MSN: | 10860 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 74 / Occupants: 75 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 3 km NW of Da Nang Airport (DAD) -
Vietnam
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Pleiku Airport (PXU/VVPK) |
Destination airport: | Da Nang Airport (DAD/VVDN) |
Narrative:The Air Vietnam DC-4 was approaching Da Nang (DAD) following a flight from Pleiku. At the same time, a US Air Force F-4 Phantom was returning to Da Nang from a strike mission. The Phantom came in above passenger plane and the fighter's left wing touched the right wing of the airliner. Part of the DC-4's wing broke off. The crew lost control and the airplane crashed on a plowed field, killing two persons working on the field.
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