Curtiss C-46 Commando crash, Jun 5, 1972 (32 killed), Ple...

Curtiss C-46 Commando accident on June 5, 1972 near Pleiku Gia Lai Province, Vietnam with 32 fatalities.

An Air America Curtiss Commando on a charter round robin flight from Saigon struck a mountain slope while on approach to Pleiku Airport on 5 June 1972. All 32 people on board were killed, among them US and South Vietnamese military personnel. No official cause finding was located in the sources reviewed.

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