2016 Vietnam Coast Guard CASA C-212 crash
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)
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
- 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.