| Date: | Saturday 10 December 1949 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-20-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Civil Air Transport |
| Registration: | XT-814 |
| MSN: | 22347 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 40 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Haikou -
 China
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Chengdu Airport (CTU/ZUUU) |
| Haikou Airport (HAK/ZGHK) |
The aircraft crashed at night during an evacuation flight. The city of Chengdu was under siege in the Chinese Civil War.
OF the 40 occupants, 17 were killed, 13 were seriously injured, and 10 slightly injured.
Sources:
Combat, 13-12-1949
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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