What the records say
- When
- 24 Dec 1966
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 16.06° N, 108.20° E
- Description
- Flying Tiger Line CL-44 crashed
- Deaths
- 111
- Injured
- 0
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1966 Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44 crash
1966 air accident
On December 24, 1966, a Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44 flying from Tachikawa Air Force Base in Japan to Da Nang Airport struck an obstacle, stalled, and crashed into Binh Thai village, killing all four crew members and 107 people on the ground. The flight was on a subcontract for the United States Air Force. This was the first fatal accident for the CL-44 and the deadliest as well.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа CL-44 в Дананге, погибли 4 лётчика и 107 человек на земле.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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