2015 Phú Quý Island Su-22M4 collision
Vietnam People's Air Force Unknown and Vietnam People's Air Force Unknown · Mid-air collision
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
- 0
- 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
- 0
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Unknown
- 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
- 5857
- Operator
- Vietnam People's Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Phan Rang Airport (PHA)To Phú Quý Air Base, Phú Quý Island
Aircraft 2 · Unknown
- 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
- 5863
- Operator
- Vietnam People's Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Phan Rang Airport (PHA)To Phú Quý Air Base, Phú Quý Island
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 2015 Phú Quý Island mid-air collision was a mid-air collision between two Su-22M4 fighter aircraft of the Vietnam People's Air Force at 11:35 am Vietnam time (UTC+7). Both pilots flying the aircraft were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Vietnamese Wikipedia article “Vụ va chạm Su-22M4 đảo Phú Quý 2015” (revision 75108050, 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
Vietnamese Wikipedia article: Vụ va chạm Su-22M4 đảo Phú Quý 2015
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 75108050 · 2026-05-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q20026313
- 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
- vi Wikipedia article "Vụ va chạm Su-22M4 đảo Phú Quý 2015" (page 3244197, revision 75108050), 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: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Vietnamese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.