ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-45-DL (DC-3) 82 southern Tibet

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Status:
Date:	Friday 26 May 1944
Type:	Douglas C-47A-45-DL (DC-3)
Operator:	China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC
Registration:	82
MSN:	9956
First flight:	1943
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Total:	Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12
Aircraft damage:	Damaged beyond repair
Location:	southern Tibet ( China)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Int'l Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Calcutta (unknown airport), India
Destination airport:	Dinjan Airport, India

Narrative:
The CNAC C-47 was transporting 10 CNAC mechanics to Dinjan. Weather en route was extremely bad with a strong tail wind and static so severe that the crew couldn't get bearings on any radio station. Apparently, they passed east of Dinjan and flew into the Graveyard of the Himalayas, north of Myanmar, where the plane crashed into a 22,000-foot mountain in Tibet.

Classification:

Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) - Mountain

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.

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