Vietnam Airlines Flight 831, a Tupolev Tu-134, crashed in a rice field 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) N of Bangkok International Airport, while operating a flight from Hanoi, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand, on 9 September 1988.

The cause of the accident is undetermined; however, the pilots reported the aircraft may have been struck by lightning as it approached to land.

[2] While flying above the outer marker, the aircraft descended below the minimum safe altitude and crashed into the ground.

The aircraft exploded on impact with debris spread over 500 metres (1,600 ft).

[2] Among the dead was Vietnamese Minister of Public Health Đặng Hồi Xuân [vi].