Qualla: Air Vietnam Flight 706 https://qualla.com/air-vietnam-flight-706 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Air Vietnam Flight 706 https://qualla.com/air-vietnam-flight-706 Air Vietnam Flight 706: Introduction https://qualla.com/air-vietnam-flight-706/ The flight should have taken about an hour. Air Vietnam Flight 706 departed Da Nang on the morning of September 15, 1974, on a routine scheduled service south to Saigon's Tan Son Nhat Airport. It never arrived. Three hijackers with grenades demanded the aircraft fly north to Hanoi instead. What followed in the next hour killed all 75 people aboard — 67 passengers and 8 crew members — making it one of the deadliest acts of air piracy in the history of Southeast Asia.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/6/air-vietnam-flight-706-wp/w6j6-air-vietnam-flight-706-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Air Vietnam Flight 706: The Three Men on the Plane https://qualla.com/air-vietnam-flight-706/ The hijacking was led by Le Duc Tan, a ranger in the South Vietnamese army who had recently been demoted from captain to lieutenant following a theft charge involving two cars in Da Nang. How he moved through security checkpoints remains part of the record — he talked his way pas...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/6/air-vietnam-flight-706-wp/w6j6-air-vietnam-flight-706-the-three-men-on-the-plane.mp3 0:06 2 full Air Vietnam Flight 706: A Diversion That Became a Trap https://qualla.com/air-vietnam-flight-706/ The pilot told the hijackers the aircraft needed to land for fuel before any flight north could be attempted. Phan Rang Air Base, a military airfield roughly 100 kilometers south of where the aircraft was operating, was the destination he named. It was a reasonable claim — the 72...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/6/air-vietnam-flight-706-wp/w6j6-air-vietnam-flight-706-a-diversion-that-became-a-trap.mp3 0:06 3 full Air Vietnam Flight 706: The Crash and Its Victims https://qualla.com/air-vietnam-flight-706/ The aircraft went down on September 15, 1974, near Phan Rang Air Base. All 75 people aboard died. Among the dead were 67 passengers — people traveling between two Vietnamese cities on a scheduled commercial flight, the kind of journey that implies an ordinary life waiting at the ...

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