| Date: | Friday 25 March 1960 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed RB-69A Neptune |
| Owner/operator: | Republic of China Air Force - ROCAF |
| Registration: | 54-4040 |
| MSN: | 726-7101 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Kunsan -
 South Korea
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hsinchu Airport (HSZ/RCPO) |
| Gunsan (Kunsan) Airport (KUV/RKJK) |
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) acquired seven Neptunes in 1954 and configured them with cameras and electronics intelligence gear. Five of those were stationed in Taiwan and operated by the Republic of China Air Force.
They were reportedly used to conduct intrusion ELINT missions over mainland China, dropping and supplying agents, and dropping propaganda leaflets. Missions were usually flown at night.
The Neptune crashed into a hill near Kunsan, South Korea, during a low level ferry flight from Hsinchu, Taiwan to staging area in Kunsan, South Korea.
Sources:
Intrusions, Overflights, Shootdowns and Defections During the Cold War and Thereafter
The Growth of Chinas Air Defenses: Responding to Covert Overflights, 19491974 / Bob Bergin
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
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