| Date: | Saturday 13 March 1954 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46E-1-CS Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Aigle Azur Maroc |
| Registration: | F-DAAR |
| MSN: | 2943 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Dien Bien Phu-Gialam Airport (DIN) -
 Vietnam
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
Destroyed on ground by mortars.
March 13, 1954 was the day Battle of Dien Bien Phu started. This was a confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
Sources:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 59)
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