1974 Boeing 307 accident in Cambodia
Cambodia Air Commercial Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner · The 1974 Boeing 307 accident in Cambodia occurred on 27 June 1974
From Battambang Airport, Khmer Republic to Phnom Penh International Airport (PNH)
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
- 19 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 20
- 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
Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner
- Aircraft type
- Boeing S-307
- 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
- XW-TFR
- Operator
- Cambodia Air Commercial
- Onboard fatalities
- 19
- Route
- From Battambang Airport, Khmer RepublicTo Phnom Penh International Airport (PNH)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
- Aircraft › Aircraft handling/service
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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
The 1974 Boeing 307 accident in Cambodia occurred on 27 June 1974. On that day, a Boeing S.307B-1 Stratoliner of Cambodia Air Commercial, which was to operate a domestic scheduled flight from Battambang to Phnom Penh, crashed to the ground shortly after takeoff due to a multiple engine failure. 19 of the 39 occupants were killed in the incident.
Accident sequence
About three minutes after takeoff, while the aircraft was in its initial climb, engines No. 1 (left outboard), 2 (left inboard) and 3 (right inboard) failed one after another within a short time. Because of the loss of power, the pilots had to make an emergency landing in a rice field. The right wing struck a tree and was torn off shortly before impact with the ground. The aircraft slid across the ground and caught fire.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the accident was determined to be mechanical failure due to poor maintenance. The high number of fatalities was said to be attributable to the fire, a panic that possibly broke out among the passengers, and the fact that the cabin crew had not been adequately trained in handling emergencies.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Boeing 307 in Kambodscha 1974” (revision 269431631, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Boeing 307 in Kambodscha 1974
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 269431631 · 2026-08-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q123130424
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Boeing 307 in Kambodscha 1974" (page 12785788, revision 269431631), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- "scheduled flight" in the article's opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.