Accident North American T-6 Texan ,
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Date:Friday 17 March 1939
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic T6 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
North American T-6 Texan
Owner/operator:ROC Air Force
Registration:
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Kunming, Yunnan Province -   China
Phase: Approach
Nature:Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Training flight. Struck trees before landing and crashed.

Pilot: Weiwen HE

Sources:

Xu, X. 2016. Falling Down—the Life & Death Records of 682 Martyrs of the (China) Air Force. Beijing, China: Unity Press. 540 pp. (in Chinese)

Revision history:

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