Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 20 JAN 1948 |
| Type: | Curtiss C-46 |
| Operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 54 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Mukden Airport (SHE) (China) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Mukden Airport (SHE/ZYTK), China |
| ? |
Crashed while evacuating people from Mukden. The aircraft rose to 60 feet after leaving the runway in a snowstorm, nosed down and crashed.
Sources:
» Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 49)
» New York Times January 21, 1948
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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.
