ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47B-20-DK (DC-3) 349931/FRBDW Dien Bien Phu-Gialam Airport (DIN)
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Status:Little or no information is available
Date:Saturday 13 March 1954
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas C-47B-20-DK (DC-3)
Operator:L'Armée de L'Air
Registration: 349931/FRBDW
MSN: 27192/15747
First flight: 1945
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C
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Aircraft damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location:Dien Bien Phu-Gialam Airport (DIN) (   Vietnam)
Phase: Unknown (UNK)
Nature:Military
Departure airport:?
Destination airport:?
Narrative:
Destroyed on ground by mortars.
March 13, 1954 was the day Battle of Dien Bien Phu started. This was a confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.



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