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Vietnam Airlines Flight 831

1988 CE · Thailand, Asia · Disaster

Vietnam Airlines Flight 831
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Vietnam Airlines Flight 831, a Tupolev Tu-134, crashed in a rice field 6 kilometres N of Bangkok International Airport, while operating a flight from Hanoi, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand, on 9 September 1988. The cause of the accident is undetermined; however, the pilots reported the aircraft may have been struck by lightning as it approached to land.

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