Status: | |
Date: | Saturday 13 February 1943 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3-294A |
Operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
Registration: | 46 |
MSN: | 2148 |
First flight: | 1940 |
Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Total: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
Location: | SW of Chungking ( China)
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Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | ? |
Destination airport: | ? |
Narrative:Forced landed in the Yangtze River near Chungking, China.
This aircraft was damaged by a bomb on May 20, 1941. The right hand wing was replaced by the wing of a DC-2, which was about 5 ft shorter.
Sources:
» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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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.