What the records say
- When
- 11 Apr 1955
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 12.00° N, 113.00° E
- Description
- Air India bomb explosion
- Deaths
- 16
- Injured
- 3
Kashmir Princess
1955 airliner bombing
The Kashmir Princess, or Air India Flight 300, was a chartered Lockheed L-749A Constellation Air India flight. On 11 April 1955, it was severely damaged mid-air by a bomb explosion and crashed into the South China Sea while en route from Bombay, India to Jakarta, Indonesia via Hong Kong. Of the nineteen occupants, only three survived.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “над Южно-Китайским морем взорван самолёт «Принцесса Кашмира», погибли 16 из 19 человек, находившихся на борту”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it ““喀什米爾公主號”事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page