On the afternoon of November 8, authorities found the wreckage of a crashed Yak-130 military aircraft. The plane crashed in Sub-area 428 of Yok Don National Park, Krong Na commune, Buon Don district, Dak Lak province.
At the time the plane crashed, Mr. Dao Cong Nguyen (a resident of Drang Pok village, Krong Na commune) was in the field when he heard a loud explosion on the other side of the Serepok river.
Later, Mr. Nguyen heard that the authorities were searching for a crashed training plane. Suspecting that the explosion might have come from the plane before it hit the ground, he went to report it.
Through many sources of information, the authorities combined using flycams to search from the air and discovered the exact location of the crashed plane.
The scene was sealed off to serve professional and technical work.
On the morning of November 8, Colonel Tran Thanh Hai - Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Region 5 informed that thousands of people from the Air Defense - Air Force, military, and local authorities participated in the search at the suspected location of the plane crash in Krong Na commune.
As reported by Lao Dong Newspaper, at around 11am on November 6, the Yak-130 training aircraft had an accident, so the two pilots in the flight crew, Colonel Nguyen Van Son and Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Hong Quan, parachuted out of the aircraft.
The location of the two parachuting pilots' escape is in Tay Xuan commune (Tay Son district).
The Yak-130 training aircraft (serial number 2101) that had the accident belonged to Air Force Regiment 940, Air Force Officer School located in Binh Dinh province.
