| Date: | Thursday 29 March 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-47140 |
| MSN: | 211 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chinkiang Air Base -
 China
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Chinkiang Air Base |
The C-46 landed too long and hot. The pilot was forced to ground loop the airplane off the side of runway, to avoid running off a high embankment at the end of runway. The pilot was under strain as he had just witnessed a mid-air explosion of a B-25 landing at night.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
CBI Unit Lineages and History
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