Vietnam Civil Aviation Flight 226
Antonov An-24B · Hijacking
From Gia Lam Air Base (VVGL) to Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 36
- Survivors
- 32
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Antonov An-24B
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- VN-B226
- Operator
- Vietnam Civil Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Gia Lam Air Base (VVGL)To Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On 7 February 1979, Vietnam Civil Aviation Flight 226 departing from Gia Lam Airport was held hostage by six hijackers using bottles of liquor and grenades, who demanded it be flown to Thailand for asylum. During the ensuing firefight with Nguyen Dac Thoai, an air marshal from the 144th Brigade, General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, four hijackers were killed and two were apprehended. This was the third hijacking of a Vietnam Civil Aviation aircraft in a short period, following hijackings in 1977 and 1978.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Vietnam Civil Aviation Flight 226
- Revision
- 1366695211 · 2026-07-29 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q137591313
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Vietnam Civil Aviation Flight 226" (page 81819354, revision 1366695211)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.