Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 1945 Beijing Curtiss C-46 Commando crash occurred on October 12, 1945 when a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Beijing's Nanyuan Airport while en route to there from Hankou (now part of Wuhan). All 59 people on board perished. It was the deadliest plane crash in 1945 and, at the time it occurred, the deadliest one on the soil of China.On the day of the accident, the aircraft, carrying 55 Chinese soldiers and a crew of four, neared Beijing in unfavorable overcast weather conditions. In addition, Nanyuan Airport was lacking in radio beacons, forcing the crew to rely on a commercial broadcasting station to navigate. On approach, the C-46 struck the station's radio antenna and crashed, killing all aboard.. }
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- 1945_Beijing_C-46_crash abstract "The 1945 Beijing Curtiss C-46 Commando crash occurred on October 12, 1945 when a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Beijing's Nanyuan Airport while en route to there from Hankou (now part of Wuhan). All 59 people on board perished. It was the deadliest plane crash in 1945 and, at the time it occurred, the deadliest one on the soil of China.On the day of the accident, the aircraft, carrying 55 Chinese soldiers and a crew of four, neared Beijing in unfavorable overcast weather conditions. In addition, Nanyuan Airport was lacking in radio beacons, forcing the crew to rely on a commercial broadcasting station to navigate. On approach, the C-46 struck the station's radio antenna and crashed, killing all aboard.".