| Date: | Sunday 27 August 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fairchild C-123K Provider |
| Owner/operator: | Air America |
| Registration: | 555 |
| MSN: | 20216 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Vang Vieng -
 Laos
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Vang Vieng Airstrip |
| Long Tieng Airstrip |
Air America's C-123K '555' departed Vang Vieng carrying 5 passengers and 13,500 pounds of palletized ordnance. The airplane hit a hill, in the Nammeui valley, 20 feet below ridge line, at 4850 feet (1478 m) elevation in bad weather.
Sources:
The aircraft of Air America / by Dr. Joe F. Leeker
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