1945 Beiping C-46 crash

1945 Beiping C-46 crash
	A C-46 Commando similar to the accident aircraft
Accident
Date	October 12, 1945
Summary	Struck radio antenna on approach in poor weather conditions
Site	Near Beiping, Republic of China; 39°51′47.28″N 116°6′53.02″E / 39.8631333°N 116.1147278°E Approximately;
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando
Operator	USAAF
Registration	44-78591
Flight origin	Hankou
Destination	Nanyuan Airport, Beiping
Passengers	55
Crew	4
Fatalities	59
Injuries	0
Survivors	0

On 16 October 1945, a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Nanyuan Airport in Beiping (now known as Beijing), killing all 59 people on board.^[1]

References

^ "Crash of a Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando near Nanyuan AFB: 59 killed". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Retrieved 11 December 2025.

[1] "Crash of a Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando near Nanyuan AFB: 59 killed". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Retrieved 11 December 2025.

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Aviation accidents and incidents in China
Before 1980	Beijing-Han Airlines crash (March 1922) Jinan air crash (November 1931) Kweilin incident (August 1938) Chungking incident (October 1940) Beiping (Beijing) C-46 crash (October 1945) United States Air Force C-47 crash at Yan'an (April 1946) China National Aviation Corporation Flight 81 crash (September 1946) Miss Macao (July 1948) Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown (July 1954)
1980s	CAAC Flight 3303 (April 1982) Vickers Viscount hijacking (July 1982) CAAC Flight 2311 (December 1982) Guilin Airport collision (September 1983) CAAC Flight 5109 (January 1985) Aeroflot Flight 101/435 (December 1985) China Airlines Flight 334 (May 1986) China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 (January 1988) Shanxi Airlines Flight 4218 (October 1988) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 (August 1989)
1990s	Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions (October 1990) China General Aviation Flight 7552 (July 1992) China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 (November 1992) China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 (July 1993) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5398 (October 1993) China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 (November 1993) China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 (June 1994) China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 (May 1997) China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 (February 1999) Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 (April 1999)
2000s	Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 (June 2000) Hainan Island incident (April 2001) China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 (May 2002) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 (November 2004) PLAAF KJ-200 crash (June 2006) Avient Aviation Flight 324 (November 2009)
2010s	Henan Airlines Flight 8387 (August 2010) Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 (June 2012) Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633 (May 2018) Hainan PLAN fighter plane crash (March 2019)
2020s	Aviastar-TU Flight 6534 (January 2022) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 (March 2022) Tibet Airlines Flight 9833 (May 2022)
Accidents and incidents in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are not included.