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Vietnam Airlines Flight 815

1997 CE · Cambodia, Asia · Disaster

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815
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Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled Vietnam Airlines flight which crashed on final approach to Pochentong International Airport in Cambodia on 3 September 1997. The Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-134B-3 airliner crashed approximately 800 metres short of the Phnom Penh runway, killing 65 of the 66 people on board.

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