| Date: | Friday 20 September 1946 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46 |
| Owner/operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
| Registration: | 81 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 31 / Occupants: 31 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Xichang, Sichuan Province -
 China
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Xichang Airport (XIC/ZUXC) |
A CNAC passenger plane crashed into the side of a 14.000-foot mountain in China. All aboard were killed. Captain of the flight was Andy Longbotham.
The airplane struck Lochi Mountain near the village of Hsichia.
Sources:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 48)
cnac.org
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