Vietnam Airlines Flight 474
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Sister-ship to the accident aircraft, retired to a park in Ho Chi Minh City
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| Accident summary | |
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| 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. One passenger survived, while the other 24 passengers and six crew were killed.
The aircraft was on a domestic scheduled flight from Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Nha Trang Airport. On approach to Nha Trang Airport it descended below a safe altitude and hit some trees on a ridge, crashed, and was destroyed.
It took rescuers eight days to find the wreckage of the plane but one of the passengers, Annette Herfkens, a Dutch woman, had survived.
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.
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.
The three-engined jet airliner was a Yakovlev Yak-40 built in the Soviet Union in 1976 and registered in Vietnam as VN-A449.
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