| Date: | Friday 9 February 1973 |
| Time: | 07:32 |
| Type: |  Fairchild C-123K Provider |
| Owner/operator: | Air America |
| Registration: | 374 |
| MSN: | 20258 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | near Thakhet East -
 Laos
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT) |
| Savannakhet Airport (ZVK/VLSK) |
Shot down by a missile while on a flight to Savannakhet with 12,000 pounds of general cargo. Both pilots were missing, one kicker was killed when he jumped without a parachute; the other kicker parachuted from the aircraft and survived.
Sources:
The aircraft of Air America / by Dr. Joe F. Leeker
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