ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 17140
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| Date: | Monday 22 December 1947 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | Trans-Air |
| Registration: | OO-XAC |
| MSN: | SH1525 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 30 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kunming, Yunnan Province -
 China
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Kunming |
| Shangai | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Aircraft crashed when 3 of the 4 engines stopped during take off. It came to a halt some 3 km away from the airfield on a cemetry. Only the copilot died from his injuries. The aircraft was carrying 28 Belgian missionaries to SW China. The aircraft had departed Brussels on 13 december 1947. The route took them from Brussels to Rome on December 13, from Rome to Athens on December 15, from Athens to Basora on December 16, with a stopover in Damas for refuelling, from Basora to Bahrain on December 17, from Bahrain to Karachi on December 18, from Karachi to Calcutta on December 20, with a stopover in Ahmedabad for refuelling, from Calcutta to Kunming on December 21.
Sources:
Belgian Civil Aircraft since 1920 / J.Appleton and A. Thys, 1980 (ISBN 0 904597 25 3)
http://www.kuleuven.be/verbiest/koerier/vk200909PDF.pdf (page 22-24)
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/oo-stirling.pdf
Images:
Kunming, December 23, 1947
Brussels December 13, 1947
December 13, 1947
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Apr-2008 07:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Sep-2010 08:57 | Lancaster | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 01-Oct-2010 02:13 | Lancaster | Updated [Destination airport] |
| 06-May-2014 16:27 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |
| 06-May-2014 16:30 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 08-Oct-2018 06:13 | Max | Updated [Narrative] |
| 08-Oct-2018 08:19 | Max | Updated [Photo] |
| 08-Oct-2018 08:19 | Max | Updated [Photo] |
| 08-Oct-2018 08:19 | Max | Updated [Photo] |
| 02-Jun-2023 05:47 | RDV | Updated [[Photo]] |
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