SOME PARTS OF THE wreckage of a US-built T-28 Trojan aircraft were inadvertently found by villagers and then retrieved by police from Mekong river in Nong Khai today (Jan.23).

 

The remains of the North American Aviation T-28 Trojan light attack aircraft were retrieved by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal police from the sandy bed of the Mekong River in Thabor district of the northeastern province after they had been told of the unintended discovery by the local villagers who had gone fishing in the ebbing international river, the police said.

 

 

The turboprop, two-seat T-28, believed to have been deployed in counter-insurgency missions of the Lao air force during the Vietnam War, may have accidentally nosedived into the river as the unknown pilot may have suddenly lost control of his aircraft. The T-28’s crash into the river was believed to have occurred about six decades earlier, the police said.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

TOP: Parts of a T-28 Trojan aircraft wreckage found in Nong Khai today, Jan. 23. 2024. Photos: Sanook.com

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2024-01-24

 

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Damn the parts look pretty good for something that's been in the water for over years...

 

2 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

Damn the parts look pretty good for something that's been in the water for over years...

 

Fresh water and on a bed of sand... 

Nice bit of scrap money, get it down to the recycling center pronto. 

hotchilli  -  I normally go up to Nong Khai during the dry season,  The Thais and the Laotians are out there getting all the sand from the sand bars that they can haul away.  

I flew the T 28 while going through US Navy flight training in the early 60's.  Actually carrier qualified on a T-28C.

Not turboprop powered but piston engined in the Vietnam war era.