What the records say
- When
- 3 Sep 1997
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 11.55° N, 104.84° E
- Description
- aviation accident in 1997
- Deaths
- 64
Vietnam Airlines Flight 815
1997 aviation accident in Cambodia
Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled Vietnam Airlines flight which crashed on final approach to Pochentong International Airport in Cambodia on 3 September 1997. The Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-134 airliner crashed approximately 800 metres short of the Phnom Penh runway, killing 65 of the 66 people on board. As of February 2024, it remains the deadliest accident in Cambodian history.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “при заходе на посадку в международный аэропорт Пномпень разбивается самолёт Ту-134, выполнявший рейс «Хошимин—Пномпень»”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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