Date:	Tuesday 11 August 1931
Time:
Type:	Loening C-W Air Yacht
Owner/operator:	China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)
Registration:	3
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Wuhan, Hubei Province -   China
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
The Air Yacht received substantial damage in an accident while landing onto the Yangtze River in Wuhan (Hankow).
Powerful wind caused the propeller to break and strike the nose of the amphibious plane. Captain Cecil Sellers and three passengers were rescued. (Sellers died seven years later when his Sikorsky S-42 exploded in the air over the south Pacific Ocean.)

The severely damaged Air Yacht was moored on the Yangtze River bank, but gale at that night blew it away and a search along the river failed to find it.

https://cnac.org/accident066.htm
CAAC's Editorial Board for Historical Records (CEBHR). 1997. Compilation of Historical Materials of China National Aviation Corporation[CNAC] and Eurasia-CATC[Central Air Transport Co.]. Beijing, China: CEBHR. 401 pp. (in Chinese)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
03-Oct-2019 18:54	TB	Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
19-May-2023 06:38	RDV	Updated
15-Dec-2024 08:04	RDV	Updated [Location, Narrative, ]