1946 Yan'an United States Air Force C-47 crash

Aviation incident in Shanxi, China C-47B-1-DL Accident C-47 in flight ca. 1943.jpg A C-47 similar to the accident aircraft yes 1946 04 08 Controlled flight into terrain Heicha Mountain, Xing County, Shanxi, China DC-3 United States Army Air Forces Chongqing Xi'an Yan'an 17 13 4 17 0 The 1946 United States Air Force C-47 crash, known in China as the April 8 Incident, was the crash of US Army Air Force C-47B-1-DL (registration 43–16360) from Chongqing to Yan'an that struck a mountain in Shanxi, China, killing all four crew members and 13 passengers, including several top Communist Chinese leaders.43-16360 19460408-0 12 March 2019 Accident The C-47 flight that took off from Chongqing en route to Yan'an had thirteen passengers - all members of the CCP delegation at Chongqing - and the four US military personnel who operated the flight. Among those on the flight were notable Communist Party leaders, including General Ye Ting; General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Qin Bangxian, also known as Bo Gu; former-President of the Central Party School Deng Fa; and Communist Party Central Committee Member Wang Ruofei. Dallas Wise, Jr. Soaring 11 1946 July–August http://soaring.geichhorn.com/Soaring_Index/1946/PDF/1946_Jul-Aug_11.pdf 2020-08-08 2022-07-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20220707073605/https://soaring.geichhorn.com/Soaring_Index/1946/PDF/1946_Jul-Aug_11.pdf dead Chinese Red Leaders Die The Windsor Daily Star 1946-04-13 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bhM_AAAAIBAJ&dq=plane%20china%20yenan&pg=3060%2C3594894 2020-08-08 CRASH OF A DOUGLAS C-47B-1-DL ON MT HEI CHO: 17 KILLED https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-douglas-c-47b-1-dl-mt-hei-cho-17-killed Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives 2020-08-08 Accompanying Ye Ting on the flight were his wife, daughter, son and nanny.Mayumi Itoh The Making of China's War with Japan: Zhou Enlai and Zhang Xueliang Palgrave Macmillan 2016 Princeton, New Jersey 212 https://books.google.com/books?id=VcswDQAAQBAJ&q=april+8+1946+plane+crash+china+chongqing+yanan&pg=PA212 10.1007/978-981-10-0494-0 978-981-10-0494-0 According to Wise's father, the aircrafted landed at Xi'an to refuel before ascending once more to fly to Yan'an. While starting to descend the aircraft crashed into the Heicha Mountains (Mt. Black Tea), located 140 mi nmi km on northeast of Yan'an in Shaanxi Province, killing all 17 people on board Aftermath The crash forced the CCP to reorganize their negotiating delegation, becoming known, in China, as the "April 8 Incident." References Category:Accidents and incidents involving United States Air Force aircraft Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Douglas C-47 Skytrain Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in China Category:History of the Chinese Communist Party Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1946 Category:1946 in China Category:China–United States military relations Category:History of Yan'an Category:April 1946 in Asia Category:1940s disasters in China