Air disaster
Open on the map2014 Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force An-74 crash
17 May 2014 · 19.42° N, 103.50° E
What the records say
- When
- 17 May 2014
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 19.42° N, 103.50° E
- Description
- air crash in Laos
- Deaths
- 16
2014 Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force An-74 crash
Aviation accident in Laos
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but one of the 17 people on board. Among the victims were several Laotian politicians travelling to attend a ceremony celebrating the 55th anniversary of the second division of the Lao People's Army.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “老撾安-74军用飞机空难,包括老撾人民革命黨中央政治局委员隆再·皮吉在内多人遇难。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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