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2016 Vietnam Coast Guard CASA C-212 crash

16 Jun 2016 · Bạch Long Vĩ, Hải Phòng, Vietnam.

Vietnam Coast Guard (Operated by the Navy Service) CASA C-212 Aviocar · Accident

From Gia Lam Air Base (VVGL) to Gia Lam Air Base (VVGL)

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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
9 · 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
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

CASA C-212 Aviocar

Aircraft type
Casa C-212
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
8983
Onboard fatalities
9
Route
From Gia Lam Air Base (VVGL)To Gia Lam Air Base (VVGL)

Approximate · Estimated position: Haiphong, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

At noon on 16 June 2016, a CASA C-212 patrol aircraft with number 8983 carrying 9 members of the Vietnam Coast Guard crashed in the sea area of Hải Phòng while on a mission to search for a Su-30MK2 pilot who had lost contact over the Gulf of Tonkin.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Vietnamese Wikipedia article “Vụ rơi máy bay CASA C-212 của Cảnh sát biển Việt Nam 2016” (revision 75349194, 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 rơi máy bay CASA C-212 của Cảnh sát biển Việt Nam 2016
Article
Vụ rơi máy bay CASA C-212 của Cảnh sát biển Việt Nam 2016
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
75349194 · 2026-07-23 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q30919653
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 rơi máy bay CASA C-212 của Cảnh sát biển Việt Nam 2016" (page 3416376, revision 75349194), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
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 article lead
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.