| Status: | |
| Date: | Tuesday 29 January 1946 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-15-CU Commando |
| Operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 44-78226 |
| MSN: | 33622 |
| First flight: | 1945 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | 5 km (3.1 mls) N of Lo-tien-Chen ( China)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Jinan Airport (TNA/ZSTN), China |
| Shanghai-Jiangwan Airport, China |
All eight passengers and four crew bailed out at night, when the crew was unable to find Shanghai-Jiangwan Airfield (then known as Kiangwan) in thick fog.
The occupants came down in the Yangtze River and two bodies were found in March 1946.
Sources:
» Evening Star 30 January 1946, p1» miac47burmawwii.org
» The Victoria Advocat 8 March 1946, p7
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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