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2016 Vietnam Air Force Aero L-39 Albatros crash

26 Aug 2016 · Hòa Thành, Đông Hòa, Phú Yên, Vietnam.

910th Air Force Regiment (Air Force Officers' School, Vietnam Air Defence – Air Force Service) Aero L-39 Albatros · Accident

From Dong Tac Airport (TBB) to Dong Tac Airport (TBB)

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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
1 · 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

Aero L-39 Albatros

Aircraft type
Aero L-39
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
8705
Onboard fatalities
1
Route
From Dong Tac Airport (TBB)To Dong Tac Airport (TBB)

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

On 26 August 2016, an Aero L-39 Albatros training aircraft with number 8705 of the 910th Air Force Regiment, Air Force Officers' School, Vietnam People's Air Force, departed from Tuy Hòa Airport (Phú Yên, Vietnam) for a training exercise; a few minutes after take-off it encountered a malfunction and crashed in a rice field in Hòa Thành commune, Đông Hòa town, Phú Yên province (now Phú Yên ward, Đắk Lắk province), Vietnam, killing a student pilot and injuring a civilian.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Vietnamese Wikipedia article “Vụ rơi máy bay Aero L-39 Albatros của Không quân Việt Nam 2016” (revision 75303884, 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 Aero L-39 Albatros của Không quân Việt Nam 2016
Article
Vụ rơi máy bay Aero L-39 Albatros của Không quân Việt Nam 2016
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
75303884 · 2026-07-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q30919916
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 Aero L-39 Albatros của Không quân Việt Nam 2016" (page 3431675, revision 75303884), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
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Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
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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
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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.