| Date: | Thursday 11 March 1954 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fairchild C-119C Flying Boxcar |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air, opb Civil Air Transport |
| Registration: | 546 |
| MSN: | 10504 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | Dien Bien Phu-Gialam Airport (DIN) -
 Vietnam
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
The aircraft had landed at Dien Bien Phu with an engine malfunction. The airport came under Vietminh shelling that night. The aircraft was hit and burned out.
The aircraft was operated by Civil Air Transport with U.S. pilots on behalf of French troops.
Sources:
Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains 2003/3 (No. 211)
Working in Remote Countries: CAT in New Zealand, Thailand-Burma, French Indochina, Guatemala, and Indonesia by Dr. Joe F. Leeker
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