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By: 6th February 2018 at 14:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-As requested by a relative of a victim of the accident on 5 March 1965, I Googled for and found more details.
5 March 1965:
Grumman HU-16B (G-64) Albatross.
1264. 151264. C/N G263/21B.
2nd Squadron, RTN (Royal Thai Navy), based at RTNB U-Tapao.
Afternoon, crashed into mountain (not into sea), near Xi Bao (or Zhen Xi Bao), Jian Shi Town (Jian Shi Xiang), Hsin Chu County.
11 crew and passengers were killed.
ROC MND thanked three people for their assistance, including Xin Guang national elementary school principal WU Jia Zhi.
ROC MND thanked three other people for their assistance, including an examiner/inspector LI Guang Hua.
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/7/26/n2602041.htm
http://recreation.forest.gov.tw/RT/RT_2_1.aspx?TR_ID=038
Zhen Xi Bao, or called Cinsbu by local Tai Ya Tribe, is a primal forest.
http://www.hkps.hcc.edu.tw/files/11-1038-6.php
Hsin Chu County Hsin Kwang (or Xin Guang) Elementary School, at Xiu Luan Village (Xiu Luan Cun), Jian Shi Town (Jian Shi Xiang), Hsin Chu County.
http://www.hccst.gov.tw/content_edit.php?menu=2536&typeid=2550
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianshi,_Hsinchu
Shin Chu (or Hsin Chu) County Jian Shih Town Office.
http://nrch.culture.tw/yearline.aspx?keyword=%e5%a4%b1%e4%ba%8b&advance…
ROC Ministry of Culture, National Repository of Cultural Heritage site has three relevant tiny B&W photos dated March 1965.
http://nrch.culture.tw/view.aspx?keyword=%E5%A4%B1%E4%BA%8B&s=553087&id=0005910238&proj=MOC_IMD_001
1965/03/12, afternoon, three RTN officers arrived at Taipei airport via Thai Airways, to deal with the aftermath of the accident, and welcomed by ROCN CIC Liu Guang Kai (not Liu "Ying" Kai).
Vice Admiral "Lu Ba Kong".
Commander "Li Na Long Da".
Lieutenant Junior Grade "Xu Chu Kang".
http://nrch.culture.tw/view.aspx?keyword=%E5%A4%B1%E4%BA%8B&advanced=$3…
1965/03/13, first of three days of Buddhist praying ceremony for the victims' souls.
RTN Vice Admiral "Zheng Kong Zhi Diao" was leaving Shan Dao Temple (Shan Dao Si).
http://nrch.culture.tw/view.aspx?keyword=%E5%A4%B1%E4%BA%8B&advanced=$3…
1965/03/19, afternoon, victims' bodies arrived at Bangkok via ROCAF aircraft.
Received by accident aircraft (or squadron?) commander Colonel "Song Ban" widow, RTN CIC "Gan Ji Pi" (probably Kanchitpon), RTAF CIC "Wen Chu" (probably Bunchu), ROC Ambassador (in Thailand) Lie Yu Wan, and other relatives/children.
http://www.shandaotemple.org.tw/sd8.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandao_Temple
Shan Dao Temple.
http://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-grumman-g-64-albatross-taipei-11-killed
http://www.baaa-acro.com/1965/archives/crash-of-a-grumman-g-64-albatross-in-taipeh-11-killed/
Crew on board: 2
Pax on board: 9
Total fatalities: 11
http://www.thai-aviation.net/accidents2.htm
"Missing shortly after take-off from Taipei en route Bangkok; 11 on board
(Note: was returning to Thailand from Japan after servicing)"
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%BB%A3%E5%87%B1
LIU Guang Kai (1914/07/13 - 1991/05/08) was ROCN CIC from 1965/01/25 to 1966/08/16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commanders-in-chief_of_the_Royal_Thai_Navy#Royal_Thai_Navy
RTN CIC was Admiral Prince Kanchitpon Apakorn from 1964 to 1966.
RTAF CIC was Air Chief Marshal Bunchu Chantharubeksa from 1960 to 1974.
Paraphrased from Duey (2018/02/05):
Passengers included Sergeant Major Adisak Songmoonnark.
Had four children aged 4 to under 1 year old.
Aircraft also reported as crashed into "Luang Sun" Mountain.
http://archive.mnd.gov.tw/index/idx_items.asp?idx=00029447
http://www.fader.dyndns.org/wings/11-Navy/113-Albatross.htm
http://nc.kl.edu.tw/bbs/archive/index.php/t-3081-p-29.html
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/escape5306/article?mid=3845&page=1#3847
By: 7th February 2018 at 15:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Thank you, Don Chan :)
By: 10th February 2018 at 03:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-14 April 1960:
C-54. DC-4-1009.
42919. BL.3-1/02.
6th Wing, RTAF, based at RTAFB Don Muang.
RTAF CIC, Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force Chaloamkeit Vatthanagkol ("Cha Lin Jie" in Chinese transliteration), his wife, and his staff departed Taiwan.
En route, crashed into Yong Chun Mountain, Taipei City.
18 crew and passengers killed.
ROCAF C-54 002 flew their coffins back to Thailand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalermkiat_Vatthanangkun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commanders-in-chief_of_the_Royal_…
RTAF CIC was Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force Chalermkiat Vatthanangkun (1914/08/15 - 1960/04/14) from 1957 to 1960.
http://www.baaa-acro.com/1960/archives/crash-of-a-douglas-dc-4-in-taipe…
Crew on board: 5
Pax on board: 13
Total fatalities: 18
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19600414-1
Location:
10 km (6.3 mls) NE of Taipei-Songshan Airport (TSA) (Taiwan)
Departure airport:
Taipei-Songshan Airport (TSA/RCSS), Taiwan
Destination airport:
Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK/VTBD), Thailand
https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=12,20,29,33,35,45&post=23519
"Taiwan Review
Chronology
Publication Date: May 01, 1960
A summary of important events from March 16 to April 15, 1960.
14.
A specially-equipped C-54 of the Royal Thai Air Force crashed into Mount Wu Tse southeast of Taipei three minutes after taking off, killing all 18 persons aboard.
The victims include: Air Chief Marshal and Mrs. Chalermkiat Watanangura, commander-in-chief, Royal Thai Air Force; Air Vice Marshal and Mrs. Suan Chitaphaibool, chief of intelligence, RTAF; and Colonel Chareon Phuakchaiphaeo, Thai military attache in Taipei; Captain Somchai Nianaloy, aide-de-camp to Marshal Watanangura; three Chinese were among those killed: Lt. Col. Huang Yai-Chen, assistant air attache of the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok; Mrs. John Chang, wife of a first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok, and her one-year-old daughter."
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JNANAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GXcDAAAAIBAJ&dq…
St. Petersburg Times, Friday, April 15, 1960.
"Chinese Nationalist Air Force officers said the four-engine Thai Air Force C-54 appeared to have departed from the normal take-off pattern and made too wide a circle.
Minutes after taking off for Bangkok, it slammed into Mt Wu Tse in an area known as 'Purple Gravestone'.
Others on the plane included Air Vice Marshal Suan Chitaphaibool, chief of Thai air intelligence; his wife; the wife and 18-month-old daughter of a Nationalist Chinese diplomat in Bangkok, and the daughter of a Thai diplomat in Taipei."
http://archive.mnd.gov.tw/index/idx_items.asp?idx=00029446
http://archive.mnd.gov.tw/index/idx_items.asp?idx=00041688
http://blog.xuite.net/jpfu0313/blog/28437862
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalermkiat_Watanangura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commanders_of_the_Royal_Thai_Air_F…
http://www.fader.dyndns.org/wings/08-RTAF%20Planes/RTAF-049-Skymaster.h…
https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/42919/630818
http://www.rocahc.org/memo/4.htm
http://www.thai-aviation.net/accidents2.htm
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/t/127/69/0#1
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By: Don Chan - 6th March 2010 at 13:55
First, another member suggested I research Thai military aviation accidents, but IMO this is a bigger challenge than my (dragged-on) attempt to research Korean military aviation accidents, again because of the (usual suspect of) language barrier.
Second, and OTOH, while researching aviation accidents (that happened) in Japan and Taiwan, I learnt at least two Thai military accidents happened in Taiwan. These were in the good old days of the Cold War, circa 1960s, when the Filipino, South African, South Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Thai, &c, air forces visited each other.
AFAIK, here are the data. Naturally, if anyone will contribute more details, then go ahead, make our day.
5 March 1965:
HU-16. 1264.
RTN (Royal Thai Navy).
Crashed into sea, near Hsin Chu.
11 crew and passengers were killed.
ROC MND thanked three people for their assistance, including Xin Guang national elementary school principal WU Jia Zhi.
ROC MND thanked three other people for their assistance, including an examiner/inspector LI Guang Hua.
http://archive.mnd.gov.tw/index/idx_items.asp?idx=00029447
http://nc.kl.edu.tw/bbs/archive/index.php/t-3081-p-29.html
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/escape5306/article?mid=3845&page=1#3847
14 April 1960:
C-54. 42919.
ROCAF or RTAF?
The RTAF CIC, Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force Chaloamkeit Vatthanagkol ("Cha Lin Jie" in Chinese transliteration), and his staff departed Taiwan. En route, crashed into Yong Chun Mountain, Taipei City.
18 persons were killed.
ROCAF C-54 002 flew their coffins back to Thailand.
http://www.rocahc.org/memo/4.htm
http://archive.mnd.gov.tw/index/idx_items.asp?idx=00029446
http://archive.mnd.gov.tw/index/idx_items.asp?idx=00041688
http://blog.xuite.net/jpfu0313/blog/28437862
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commanders_of_the_Royal_Thai_Air_Force