Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 13 MAR 1943 |
| Type: | Douglas C-53 |
| Operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
| Registration: | 49 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Himalaya (China) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Kunming-Wujiaba Airfield (KMG/ZPPP), China |
| Dinjan Airport, India |
Disappeared while flying a cargo consisting of 110-pound tin bars over the Himalaya Mountains to Dinjan.
Sources:
» CNAC.org
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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.
