VIETNAM AIR CRASHES
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright
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Two transport aircraft, one chartered by Air America and the other a South Vietnamese Air Force aircraft have crashed north-west of Saigon, near the Cambodian border.
The United States Embassy said that four crewmen, believed to be Chinese, were injured when the aircraft, chartered by Air America from the Taiwanbased China Airlines, went down while returning from a rice delivery to the beleaguered Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, The cause was unknown. Two South Vietnamese crewmen were killed and four were missing in the other crash after the C47| transport was, hit by ground I • fire, military sources said. ! Air America, a commercial i line funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, ferries American officials around Indochina and also supplies transport to the International Control Commission for Vietnam. Both crashes occurred yesterday near the “Parrot’s Beak” salient of the Cam-1 bodian border, in an area; where Communist forces are! reported to have brought in more anti-aircraft weapons. •
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33534, 15 May 1974, Page 13
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