| Date: | Saturday 1 September 1979 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-26 |
| Owner/operator: | Lao Aviation |
| Registration: | RDPL-34037 |
| MSN: | 2505 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Engine model: | Ivchenko AI-24 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 74 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Ban Mai -
 Thailand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Hanoi-Noi Bai International Airport (HAN/VVNB) |
| Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT) |
The Antonov An-26 departed Hanoi for a flight to Vientiane. On board were 62 girl students and 6 parents returning from the Soviet Union. Near Vientiane the crew became lost in a heavy rainstorm. The plane entered Thai airspace and circled the village of Ban Mai four times before the pilots were forced to land in a corn field due to fuel exhaustion. The exact extent of damage is unknown.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Bangkok Post
MacAlan Thompson
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 31 January 1980 | RDPL-34037 | Lao Aviation | 0 | Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE) |  |
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