Date:	Saturday 14 November 1992
Time:	07:12
Type:	Yakovlev Yak-40
Owner/operator:	Vietnam Airlines
Registration:	VN-A449
MSN:	9631848
Year of manufacture:	1976
Total airframe hrs:	4668 hours
Cycles:	3686 flights
Engine model:	Ivchenko AI-25
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 31
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Son Trung -   Vietnam
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Ho Chi Minh City-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN/VVTS)
Destination airport:	Nha Trang Airport (NHA/VVNT)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Vietnam Airlines flight 474 was destroyed when it impacted terrain near Son Trung, Vietnam. Of the 31 occupants, one passenger survived.
The aircraft, a Yak-40, operated on a domestic flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang. When descending towards Nha Trang the aircraft went below the minimum safe altitude. Also, the aircraft deviated 6 km off the W-13 airway.
Flying over mountainous terrain, the aircraft impacted the top of a ridge, struck some trees and crashed 350 m further on, at an elevation of 970 m. Rescue workers reached the wreckage after eight days.
Weather reported at Nha Trang was Wind 310° 1 m/s, 3cu at 300 m, 5cu at 500 m and 8sc at 1500 m, temperature 25°c and QFE 758.9.

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Vietnam Air Accident Inquiry Organisation

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE); November 1991

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