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Flying Tiger Line Flight 45
Cargo flight operating Los Angeles to Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam
Flying Tiger Line Flight 45 was a regularly scheduled cargo flight by Flying Tiger Line from Los Angeles to Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam, with intermediate stops at San Francisco, Seattle, Cold Bay, Tokyo, Naha, Hong Kong, and Cam Ranh.[1] On July 27, 1970, the flight, a Douglas DC-8-63F with the registration N785FT crashed on final approach as it was trying to make its 4th stopover at Naha Airport (then Naha Air Base) in Okinawa, which was under US administration at the time.