ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342294
| Date: | Sunday 8 August 1937 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Sikorsky S-43W |
| Owner/operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
| Registration: | NC16930 |
| MSN: | 4321 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1936 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chilang Point, Bias Bay -
 China
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG/VHHH) |
| Shanghai (unknown airport) |
Forced to ditch due to bad weather of Bias Bay (now called Daya Bay). High waves broke one wing off; the 8 surivors clung to the other wing until rescued by a British destroyer, HMS Thracian.
The airplane was named "Chekiang".
Sources:
cnac.org
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