Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 17 NOV 1942 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47-DL |
| Operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
| Registration: | 60 |
| C/n / msn: | 4681 |
| First flight: | 1942 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 15 km (9.4 mls) NW of Dali, Yunnan Province (China)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Kunming-Wujiaba Airfield (KMG/ZPPP), China |
| Dinjan Airport, India |
CANC Flight 60 left Kunming, China where it had dropped off a load of gasoline and ammunition, and was heading back to Dinjan, India when it disappeared over the Himalaya mountain range.
The wreckage was finally discovered in 2011, 13,400ft up a Himalayan mountain in Yunnan Province, China.
Sources:
» Discovery of wreckage brings Brevard man closure (Florida Today, 1-1-2012)
» CNAC.org
» 69 years after hero American war pilot died, family find his lost plane 13,000ft up a Himalayan mountain (Mail Online, 2-1-2012)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
