F-4 crash over North Vietnam on 26 July 1967
433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II · Not determined
From Ubon, Thailand to an unrecorded destination
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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- Aircraft type
- McDonnell Douglas F-4
- 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
- 64-0848
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Ubon, ThailandTo not recorded
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
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 F-4 crash over North Vietnam on 26 July 1967 was a serious aviation accident involving a United States Air Force F-4 aircraft during the Vietnam War.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the loss of the aircraft was not determined, but it is assumed that it crashed as a result of premature detonation of its own munitions at the moment of attacking the target. However, Chris Hobson's book states that the bombs exploded, whereas the website of the organisation Task Force Omega speaks of an explosion of unguided rockets.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа F-4 над Северным Вьетнамом 26 июля 1967 года” (revision 146387261, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа F-4 над Северным Вьетнамом 26 июля 1967 года
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 146387261 · 2025-07-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4217212
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа F-4 над Северным Вьетнамом 26 июля 1967 года" (page 2636621, revision 146387261), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.