| Date: | Thursday 17 November 1966 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-20-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Air America |
| Registration: | B-156 |
| MSN: | 22353 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | near Tam Ky -
 Vietnam
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Hit by heavy communist machine gun fire, while carrying 34 VIP passengers. The plane crash-landed at Tam Ky were it was seriously damaged by fire.
Sources:
El Litoral 17-11-1966
The aircraft of Air America / by Dr. Joe F. Leeker
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