Date: | Thursday 13 March 1975 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Lao |
Registration: | XW-TFP |
MSN: | 1998 |
Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | -
Laos
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG/VHHH) |
Destination airport: | Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT) |
Narrative:An aircraft was reported missing on this date while on a flight from Hong Kong to Vientiane. MacAlan Thompson reported that a Stratoliner was forced to carry out a controlled crash-landing in a river. Captain Jimmy Lieu and the copilot were held prisoner by the communist Pathet Lao for several months then released about May 1975.
Other sources claim Curtiss C-46 XW-PMF (or HS-SKD), c/n reported 22561, was reported missing in the same period on the same flight. Since Stratoliner XW-TFP was seen in the Mekong river, near the Laos-Thailand border in 1986, this is probably the aircraft that "disappeared".
Sources:
AeroTransport Data Bank
MacAlan Thompson
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