ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342571
| Date: | Friday 31 March 1922 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Type: |  Handley Page O/7 |
| Owner/operator: | Chinese Government |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Beijing-Nanyuan Airport -
 China
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| Beijing-Nanyuan Airport (NAY/ZBNY) |
The aircraft crashed and caught fire after the tail struck treetops on landing after a three-day-trial tour as "Beijing-Han Airlines" initiated by warlord Cao Kun.
This was the first fatal commercial passenger aircraft accident in China.
The aircraft type has been reported as a "Handley Page". Likely it was one of six HP O/400 bomber planes that were modified to O/7 transport planes and exported to China in 1919.
Sources:
http://news.carnoc.com/list/234/234637.html
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