ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340945
| Date: | Wednesday 9 June 1943 |
| Time: | 10:46 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3-196A |
| Owner/operator: | Hamiata |
| Registration: | URSS-N |
| MSN: | 2043 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1938 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2289 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 32 / Occupants: 32 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 20 km NE of Yanchi -
 China
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tihwa Airport (URC/ZWWW) |
| Hami Airport (HMI/ZWHM) |
A Hamiata DC-3 got caught in a strong downstream while overflying the Chigi-Chinze pass in China, 20 km north-east of Yanchi on
the Tihwa-Hami road and impacted the southern slope of the pass at a height of some 2,000 metres.
The aircraft operated on a flight from Alma-Ata to Hami with an en route stop at Tihwa (now Ürümqi).
The wreckage was found on 15 June 1943.
Sources:
airdisaster.ru
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