| Date: | Thursday 13 March 1975 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Lao |
| Registration: | XW-TFP |
| MSN: | 1998 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | -
 Laos
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG/VHHH) |
| Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT) |
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
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