| Date: | Friday 1 December 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada C-7A Caribou (DHC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | Vietnam Air Force - VNAF |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 22 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 2 km N of Tuy Hoa Airport (TBB) -
 Vietnam
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Buon Me Thuot (Ban Me Thuot)-Phung-Duc Airport (BMV/VVBM) |
| Tuy Hoa Airport (TBB/VVTH) |
A twin-engined transport plane, identified as a "Caribou C-47" crashed in bad weather while on approach to Tuy Hoa Airport.
Lieutenant General Tr?n Thanh Phong, Chief of the South Vietnamese pacification program was killed in the accident.
Sources:
The Straits Times 2 December 1972, p1
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