At noon on May 24, a widespread heavy rain occurred in Ho Chi Minh City, causing a leakage pipe of the T3 terminal of Tan Son Nhat airport. Because this is a vertical pipe, water from the roof flows down with great pressure, leaks out and flows straight into the station floor.
Specifically, the representative of the contractor's joint venture said that the amount of heavy rainwater from the station roof was collected and led through the trough system, then flowing into the infrastructure manholes through drainage pipes. However, at a connection position, the rubber gasket is exposed, causing the water to not be in the right direction but spilling out, flowing down the area where the flight procedures are done inside the station.
"Immediately after the incident, the unit urgently overcome. Engineers and workers were mobilized to the roof to check the entire drainage pipe system. So far, the leakage phenomenon has been processed. In tonight, the contractor will replace new gaskets and thoroughly handle the joint" - the representative of the contractor's joint venture.
It is worth mentioning that just over a month after the inauguration day (September 19), the T3 terminal had two water leak incidents.
Earlier, in the afternoon of 7.5, a heavy rain also made the waiting area for departure. The cause was later determined by the shrinkage of the roof system, where the adjacent between the main roof and the roof of the light.
The T3 passenger terminal construction project - Tan Son Nhat International Airport is invested by Vietnam Airports Corporation (ACV), with a total investment of nearly VND 11,000 billion.
Of which, package No. 12 - construction and installation of terminal equipment is worth VND9,034 billion.
The winning bidder was a consortium of 6 contractors: Hanoi Construction Joint Stock Corporation ( Hancorp), Construction Joint Stock Corporation No. 1 (CC1), Corporation 319 (Ministry of National Defense), Truong Son Construction Corporation, Ricons Construction Investment Joint Stock Company and Luu Nguyen Construction Company Limited.
Tan Son Nhat T3 Station started construction at the end of 2022 and was officially inaugurated on April 19, 2025.
With a floor area of over 112,500 m2, including a basement and four upper floors, Terminal T3 is designed modernly, separating the departure and arrival areas to optimize passenger traffic.
The terminal is equipped with 90 check-in counters, 20 bagdrop counters, 42 automatic check-in kiosks and 27 aircraft departure gates. In addition, the apartment building category integrated with a non- aviation service has an area of up to 130,000 m2, including two basements and four upper floors.
Currently, all domestic flights of Vietnam Airlines have been transferred to operation at Terminal T3.
