The RVNAF reacted to the two pilots' actions by sending a resolution to Diệm, saying that the attack was an "absolutely isolated and foolish" event that "impaired the prestige of the air force" and was "detrimental to the national effort in the present struggle and is profitable to the Communists in their work of subversion". The RVNAF was regarded as being a highly loyal branch of the armed forces and its commander, Colonel Nguyen Quang Vinh had claimed the year before, that all of the RVNAF's officer corps had voted for Diem in the 1961 presidential election. Upon hearing of the attack, Vinh who had been in Taiwan attending a conference boarded a specially chartered airplane provided by Taiwanese President Chiang Kai-shek of Taiwan, to return to Saigon to make a statement on the situation and the political reliability of the RVNAF.