Incident Overview
Date: Thursday 14 October 1948
Aircraft Type: Douglas C-47
Owner/operator: ROC Air Force
Registration Number: 326
Location: Jinzhou, Liaoning Province –
ÿ China
Phase of Flight: Combat
Status: Destroyed
Casualties: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants:
Component Affected: C-47 aircraftC-47 aircraft
Category: Accident
On the night of [Date – assumed to be present], a C-47 aircraft crashed while bombing Chinese communist positions in Jinzhou. According to eyewitness accounts and a published report, this aircraft collided with another C-47, resulting in the deaths of seven crew members. The former statement of one pilot, Jiaqi LU, claimed his plane was shot down.On the night of [Date – assumed to be present], a C-47 aircraft crashed while bombing Chinese communist positions in Jinzhou. According to eyewitness accounts and a published report, this aircraft collided with another C-47, resulting in the deaths of seven crew members. The former statement of one pilot, Jiaqi LU, claimed his plane was shot down.
Description
Went down while bombarding Chinese communist positions in Jinzhou at night. According to Tang (2019) this aircraft had collided with another C-47 registered 332. By contrast, the obituary of one of the deceased airmen (Jiaqi LU, a pilot of 326) claimed that his plane was shot down by anti-aircraft weaponry. The former statement is adopted here, since it was proposed in a formal publication. Tang (2019) wrote that a total of seven crew members died in the crashes of the two C-47 planes, but did not specify the number of occupants aboard each aircraft.
Source of Information
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Collision with another C-47 aircraft.Collision with another C-47 aircraft.Share on:
