Ce que disent les sources
- Quand
- 24 août 1938
- Type
- Catastrophe aérienne
- Coordonnées
- 22.52° N, 113.39° E
- Description
- civilian airliner destroyed by Japanese aircraft in China in 1938
- Deaths
- 14
- Injured
- 1
Kweilin incident
1938 airliner shootdown incident
The Kweilin incident occurred on 24 August 1938 when a Douglas DC-2 airliner named Kweilin carrying 18 passengers and crew was shot down by Japanese aircraft in China. There were fifteen fatalities including two crew. It was the first civilian airliner in history to be shot down by hostile aircraft. The pilot of the downed aircraft was American and the crew and passengers Chinese.
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