Air Vietnam Flight 706 was a which crashed on September 15, 1974 near in South Vietnam. After taking off from in on a regularly scheduled flight for , the flight was by a man holding two grenades. He demanded to be flown to in . For unknown reasons the pilots approached the airfield at Phan Rang but aborted the landing. The aircraft overshot the base leg and initiated a left turn, during which the aircraft lost control. Shortly after that, the airplane plunged to the ground from an altitude of 1,000 feet (300 m), killing all 75 people aboard. Even though the exact cause remains unclear, it has been speculated that the hijacker caused the crash by setting off his grenades after the pilots refused to give in to his demands.
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