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    Air Vietnam Flight 706 was a Boeing 727 that crashed on September 15, 1974 after three hijackers detonated hand grenades as it was approaching Phan Rang...
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  • rear pressure bulkhead failure Air Vietnam Flight 706 (1974, South Vietnam), hijacked and crashed Proteus Airlines Flight 706 (1998, France), a Beechcraft...
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    source needed] of the passengers and crew appear in the table below: Air Vietnam Flight 706 Portals: Malaysia Aviation 1970s The aircraft was a Boeing 737-200...
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  • board were killed. Air Vietnam Flight 706 was hijacked, then crashed after a missed approach at Phan Rang. Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 – The Yakovlev Yak-40...
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    Iran of being behind the attack. Air Vietnam Flight 706 Avianca Flight 203 Aviation safety Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 List of accidents and incidents...
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  • aircraft. Of 113 people on board, 108 died. September 15, 1974: Air Vietnam Flight 706 was hijacked by a former South Vietnamese army officer who ordered...
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    passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision. As...
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    Soviet Union Russia 1970s United Airlines Flight 93 Air Vietnam Flight 706 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 Pan Am Flight 103 "Tu-104A c/n 8350403". Scramble Soviet...
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    Active from 1951 to 1975, Air Viet Nam (Air VN) (Vietnamese: Hãng Hàng không Việt Nam) was South Vietnam's first commercial air carrier, headquartered in...
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    The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Vietnamese: Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; French: Force aérienne...
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    of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was...
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  • ISBN 978-1-78057-748-7. Simpson, Paul (16 October 2014). The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-78033-829-3...
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    responsible for the air base ground defense of Phù Cát Air Base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Phu Cat AB was the field test site for the six-month...
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    firm of Mario Armond Zamparelli, following the crash of Flight 706 in June 1971, caused by a mid-air collision with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B jet fighter near...
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  • System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport. 1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then...
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  • board were killed. September 15 – Air Vietnam Flight 706, a Boeing 727, was hijacked and crashed in Phan Rang, Vietnam following an aborted landing; all...
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  • hand grenades hijacks Air Vietnam Flight 706, a Boeing 727-121C on a flight from Da Nang, South Vietnam, to Saigon, South Vietnam, shortly after takeoff...
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    fighters, it was the first United States Air Force (USAF) fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. The F-100 was envisioned during the late...
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    Air rage occurs when airline personnel or passengers act violently or disruptively towards others. When these incidents have occurred in flight, they...
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    around the world. On 6 June 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 collided in mid-air with a United States Marine Corps F-4B Phantom...
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  • Rang, South Vietnam Le Duc Tan, a South Vietnamese ranger who had recently had his position in the army demoted hijacked Air Vietnam Flight 706 and demanded...
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  • military and immigration history". October 5, 1975: Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 706 was hijacked by a Montoneros platoon as part of Operation Primicia. The...
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  • VN-A120 Tupolev Tu-134 Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 VN-A449 Yakovlev Yak-40 Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 XV-NJC Boeing 727-121C Air Vietnam Flight 706...
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    aboard Air Vietnam Flight 706 were killed when three hijackers detonated grenades as the Boeing 727 was attempting an emergency landing at Phan Rang Air Base...
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  • (ground or flight) in which the sole occupant of the opposing aircraft survives (e.g., All Nippon Airways Flight 58 and Eastern Air Lines Flight 537). Also...
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    aircraft in the United States Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254 collided with a Civil Air Patrol Cessna 172 over Gadsden, on April 9, 1990. Both individuals...
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    incapable of providing adequate firepower. The U.S. Air Force and Navy lost some 266 A-1s in action in Vietnam, largely from small-arms fire. The lack of modern...
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    Naval Air Squadron 847 Naval Air Squadron 848 Naval Air Squadron Second Line Squadrons 700H Naval Air Squadron 700V Naval Air Squadron 706 Naval Air Squadron...
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