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| Date: | Thursday 22 July 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-1-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 348281 |
| MSN: | 25542/14097 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Hoa Binh -
 Vietnam
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The aircraft was transporting fuel when it came down in an open countryside in Vietminh controlled area.
On board were five occupants, including Col. de la Baume, Commander of Air Force of Northern Indochina.
Sources:
Le Monde 24 July 1948
memorialgenweb.org
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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