2016 Vietnam Air Force Aero L-39 Albatros crash
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)
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
- Operator
- 910th Air Force Regiment (Air Force Officers' School, Vietnam Air Defence – Air Force Service)
- 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
- 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
- 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: 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.