1945 Beiping C-46 crash
Aviation incident in China
39°51′47.28″N 116°6′53.02″E / 39.8631333°N 116.1147278°E / 39.8631333; 116.1147278 ApproximatelyThe 1945 Beiping Curtiss C-46 Commando crash occurred on October 12, 1945, when a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Nanyuan Airport in Beiping (now known as Beijing) while en route to there from Hankou (now part of Wuhan). All 59 people on board perished. It was the deadliest plane crash in 1945 and, at the time it occurred, the deadliest one on the soil of the Republic of China. The crash also is the worst ever involving the C-46.[1]
On the day of the accident, the aircraft, carrying 55 Chinese soldiers and a crew of four, neared Peip'ing in unfavorable overcast weather conditions. In addition, Nanyuan Airport was lacking in radio beacons, forcing the crew to rely on a commercial broadcasting station to navigate. On approach, the C-46 struck the station's radio antenna and crashed, killing all aboard.[2]
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Aviation accidents and incidents in China
- Beijing-Han Airlines crash (March 1922)
- Jinan air crash (November 1931)
- Kweilin Incident (August 1938)
- Chungking Incident (October 1940)
- Beiping (Beijing) C-46 crash (October 1945)
- United States Air Force C-47 crash at Yan'an (April 1946)
- Miss Macao (July 1948)
- Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown (July 1954)
- Lin Biao incident (September 1971)
- CAAC Flight 3303 (April 1982)
- CAAC Flight 2311 (December 1982)
- CAAC Flight 296 (May 1983)
- Guilin Airport collision (September 1983)
- CAAC Flight 5109 (January 1985)
- Aeroflot Flight 101/435 (December 1985)
- China Airlines Flight 334 (May 1986)
- China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 (January 1988)
- China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 (August 1989)
- Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions (October 1990)
- China General Aviation Flight 7552 (July 1992)
- China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 (November 1992)
- China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 (July 1993)
- China Eastern Airlines Flight 5398 (October 1993)
- China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 (November 1993)
- China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 (June 1994)
- China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 (May 1997)
- China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 (February 1999)
- Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 (April 1999)
- Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 (June 2000)
- Hainan Island incident (April 2001)
- China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 (May 2002)
- China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 (November 2004)
- PLAAF KJ-200 crash (June 2006)
- Avient Aviation Flight 324 (November 2009)
- Henan Airlines Flight 8387 (August 2010)
- Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 (June 2012)
- Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633 (May 2018)
- China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 (March 2022)
- Tibet Airlines Flight 9833 (May 2022)
Accidents and incidents in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are not included.
