The plane, last flown to Hanoi from Siem Reap, Cambodia, has been unclaimed since 2007
Action would show national loyalty in face of assertive Chinese behavior in South China Sea.
Deputy Captain tells VOA Thursday he believes Indonesian pirates carried out the attack on the ship shortly after its departure from a port in Singapore.
Hanoi makes initial payment of more than $7 million to compensation nearly 140 businesses, including Taiwanese and Chinese companies.
Pham Quy Ngo, deputy minister of public security, dies just one day after senior Vietnamese official said Ngo should be suspended during probe into graft charges.
