Vietnam Airlines Flight 474

Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed on approach to Nha Trang Airport on 14 November 1992 during Cyclone Forrest. The aircraft was a Yakovlev Yak-40 registered VN-A449.[1] One passenger survived, while the other 24 passengers and six crew were killed.

Vietnam Airlines Flight 474
Sister-ship to the accident aircraft, retired to a park in Ho Chi Minh City
Accident
Date14 November 1992
SummaryCFIT
SiteNear Son Trung, Vietnam
Aircraft
Aircraft typeYakovlev Yak-40
OperatorVietnam Airlines
RegistrationVN-A449
Flight originHo Chi Minh City-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN/VVTS)
DestinationNha Trang Airport (NHA/VVNT)
Passengers25
Crew6
Fatalities30
Survivors1

Aircraft

The three-engined jet airliner was a Yakovlev Yak-40 built in the Soviet Union in 1976 and registered in Vietnam as VN-A449.

Accident

The aircraft was on a domestic scheduled flight from Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Nha Trang Airport.[1] On approach to Nha Trang Airport it descended below a safe altitude and hit some trees on a ridge, crashed, and was destroyed.[1]

Aftermath

It took rescuers eight days to find the wreckage of the plane but one of the passengers, Annette Herfkens, a Dutch woman, had survived.[2]

On 22 November 1992 a Vietnamese Mil Mi-8 helicopter was sent from Hanoi carrying rescue workers for Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, but it crashed near mountain Ô Kha on the same day. All 7 people aboard were killed.[3]

Almost a year after the accident, family members in the UK demanded an investigation after receiving news that the bodies were returned to the wrong families.[4]

References
  1. Accident description for VN-A449 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 November 2014.
  2. Bennetto, Jason (1993-08-09). "Inquiry demanded after air crash bodies are sent to wrong families". Independent (London). Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  3. Những ngày băng rừng tìm máy bay rơi ở thung lũng Ô Kha
  4. 09 August 1993 article in The Independent
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