Vietnam Airlines Flight 474

Vietnam Airlines Flight 474
Accident summary
Sister-ship to the accident aircraft, retired to a park in Ho Chi Minh City
Date	14 November 1992
Summary	CFIT
Site	Near Son Trung, Vietnam
Passengers	25
Crew	6
Fatalities	30
Survivors	1
Aircraft type	Yakovlev Yak-40
Operator	Vietnam Airlines
Registration	VN-A449
Flight origin	Ho Chi Minh City-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN/VVTS)
Destination	Nha Trang Airport (NHA/VVNT)

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.

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 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 survivors.^[4]

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.

References

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

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