What the records say
- When
- 9 Jul 1981
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 29.22° N, 102.90° E
- Description
- railway accident in Sichuan, China
- Deaths
- 360
- Injured
- 146
1981 Chengdu–Kunming rail crash
Railway accident in Sichuan, China
The 1981 Chengdu–Kunming rail crash occurred on July 9, 1981, when train number 442 passed the failed Liziyida bridge near Ganluo County, Sichuan province. More than 200 died in the accident while 146 were injured. It is the worst train disaster in the history of the People's Republic of China.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Chengdu-Kunming rail crash”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “成昆铁路发生旅客列车坠桥事故，造成超过240人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page