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| Date: | Wednesday 22 April 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Ilyushin DB-3? |
| Owner/operator: | ROC Air Force |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Xundian County, Kunming, Yunnan Province -
 China
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Scrambled from Kunming to avoid Japanese air raid; crashed.
Pilots Xuece CHEN & Zhen GU both died.
Sources:
Xu, X. 2016. Falling Down—the Life & Death Records of 682 Martyrs of the (China) Air Force. Beijing, China: Unity Press. 540 pp. (in Chinese)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Jun-2025 02:40 | RDV | Added |
| 06-Jun-2025 02:41 | RDV | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
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