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2015 Phú Quý Island Su-22M4 collision

16 Apr 2015 · About 13 km north of Phú Quý Island, Vietnam

Vietnam People's Air Force Unknown and Vietnam People's Air Force Unknown · Mid-air collision

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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
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
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
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.