The aircraft, carrying five people, crashed into the sea off the Gulf of Thailand near Baby Grande Hua Hin Hotel in Cha-am district, Phetchaburi province, about 8km from Hua Hin town centre and close to Hua Hin airport.
The decision by two pilots to parachute from their aircraft was correct, said Lieutenant General Pham Truong Son, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.
A small aircraft of Indonesia's local carrier SAM Air crashed in Gorontalo province, Sulawesi Island, on October 20, killing all four people on board, local media reported.
Vietnamese President To Lam on June 12 sent a message of condolences to Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera over the plane crash two days ago, which left Vice President Saulos Chilima and many others dead.
Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport confirmed on August 17 that eight people on board and two others on ground were killed in a plane crash near Elmina township in central Selangor State earlier the same day.
A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Algeria visited the memorial on the street named Journalistes du Vietnam 8/3/1974 in Algiers capital city on March 8 to commemorate the Algerian journalists who died in a plane crash on the outskirts of Hanoi in 1974.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 17 sent a message of condolences to his Nepalese counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal over the air crash on January 15.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 22 sent his sympathies to Chinese Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping over a plane crash a day earlier.
Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Vinh has laid flowers at a monument in Journalistes du Vietnam 8/3/1974 Street in Algiers to commemorate Algerian journalists who died in a plane crash on the outskirts of Hanoi in 1974.
All three people on board a small cargo aircraft which crashed in poor weather in Indonesia's Papua province, had been killed in the accident, security authorities say.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 7 sent a message of condolences to his Russia counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over a plane crash in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula a day earlier, killing all 28 people on board.
A spokesman of the Myanmar military junta on June 10 confirmed that 12 people were killed in a plane crash that happened on the morning of the same day.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 19 cabled a message of condolences to Indonesian President Joko Widodo over the recent earthquake and plane crash.
Disasters and the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic have claimed nearly 4,000 lives in Indonesia since the start of this year, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) stands ready to support its Indonesian counterpart with regard to the recent plane crash, said CAAV leader.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on January 10 extended condolences to President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, Governor General of Canada Julie Payette, and President of Ukraine V.O. Zelensky over the recent plane crash of a passenger jet operated by the Ukraine International Airlines.
Indonesia authorities plan to launch a special investigation into Lion Air's operations after its flight JT610 crashed last week, killing all 189 people onboard, a government official said on November 5.
Indonesia authorities on August 12 announced that a plane carrying seven passengers and two crew members crashed at remote mountainous area in the eastern part of the country, killing eight people.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on May 19 sent a message of sympathy to Raul Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba over the crash of a plane of the Cubana airline on May 18.
