Vietnam Airlines Flight 474

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Vietnam Airlines Flight 474
VN-A446 Yakolev Yak. 40 VAA (7879700854) .jpg

An identical machine from Vietnam Airlines
Accident summary
Accident type Controlled flight into terrain
place near Son Trung , VietnamVietnamVietnam 
date November 14, 1992
Fatalities 30th
Survivors 1
Injured 1
Aircraft
Aircraft type Soviet UnionSoviet Union Yakovlev Yak-40
operator VietnamVietnam Vietnam Airlines
Mark VietnamVietnam VN-A449
Departure airport Tan Son Nhat Airport , Ho Chi Minh City , VietnamVietnamVietnam 
Destination airport Nha Trang Airport , VietnamVietnamVietnam 
Passengers 25th
crew 6th
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On November 14, 1992, a serious aircraft accident occurred on Vietnam Airlines flight 474 (flight number IATA : VN474 , ICAO : HVN474 ). A Jakowlew Jak-40 of Vietnam Airlines , with which a domestic scheduled flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang was to be carried out, had an accident on approach in adverse weather conditions, the machine was flown off-road in a controlled manner . In the accident, 30 of the 31 people on board were killed, only one passenger survived.

machine

The machine that crashed was a 16-year-old Jakowlew Jak-40. The machine with the serial number 9631848 and the model serial number 48-18 was newly delivered to Vietnam Airlines in July 1976, where it received the aircraft registration VN-A449. The three-engine short-range narrow-body aircraft was equipped with three turbofan engines of the type Ivchenko AI-25 equipped. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed 5668 operating hours, which accounted for 3686 take-offs and landings.

Passengers and crew

The flight from the airport Tan Son Nhat to Airport Nha Trang had begun 25 passengers, there was a crew of six on board.

Weather

At the time of the accident, cyclone Forrest was raging over the region. In Nha Trang the wind was blowing from 310 degrees at a wind speed of one meter per second, the temperatures were 25 ° C and the air pressure on the ground ( QFE ) was 758.9.

the accident

When the aircraft was approaching Nha Trang, the pilots lowered it below the safety altitude. In addition, the machine had deviated six kilometers from approach route W-13. The machine was now over mountainous terrain when it brushed a ridge and several trees and hit a height of 970 meters after another 350 meters.

Victim

All six crew members and 24 of the 25 passengers died in the accident. There was only one survivor.

Rescue operation

It took eight days for rescue teams to get to the crash site. They found a survivor, Annette Herfkens from the Netherlands . Herfkens had spent 192 hours at the crash site by then.

On November 22, 1992, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter with salvage crews was dispatched from Hanoi . The helicopter crashed near Mount Ô Kha that same day, killing all seven people on board.

consequences

In August 1993, UK victims' relatives called for an investigation to be organized after they learned that the remains of crash victims had been reversed and given to the wrong families.

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