crashed 75 mi from Mengzi while en route to Haiphong, Vietnam. 9 December 1949 Curtiss C-46D XT-820 struck a mountain near Lanzhou en route from Beijing, killing all 38 on board. 10 December 1949 Curtiss C-46D XT-814 crashed at Haikou while on an evacuation flight from Chengdu to Haikou during the Chinese Civil War, killing 17 of 40 on board. Chengdu was under siege at the time. 8 December 1950 Curtiss C-46 XT-44 crashed on landing at Yonpo Airfield, North Korea, killing a passenger. 9 December 1950 Curtiss C-46F XT-852 struck the side of Mount Fuji at 8000 feet while en route to Korea, killing the three crew. 29 November 1952 A Douglas C-47 was shot down and crashed in Jilin Province, killing two of four crew on board. The aircraft was on a mission to pick up a secret agent in China. 6 May 1954 Fairchild C-119C 149 (ex 49-0149) crashed near Ban Sot, Laos, killing five of six crew, including pilot John P. McGovern and co-pilot Wallace A. Buford, the first American combat casualties in Vietnam. The aircraft was delivering an artillery piece to French troops at Dien Bien Phu when it was struck by Vietminh ground fire; one engine was lost to flak. The pilot managed to fly the aircraft 75 miles south into Laos and radioed another C-119 pilot for help in finding level ground. The crippled C-119 could hold out no longer, and it cartwheeled and crashed into a hillside near the Sang Ma River in Houaphan Province. McGovern's remains were located in 2002 and identified in 2006. 20 October 1954 Douglas C-47A B-811 crashed in the Gulf of Siam off Hua Hin, Thailand, killing six of seven on board. The aircraft, chartered by Sea Supply (a CIA operation) was practicing paratroop drops when a wingtip dipped. 20 June 1964 Flight 106, a Curtiss C-46, crashed near the village of Shenkang in western Taiwan, killing all 57 people aboard. Among the dead were 20 Americans, one Briton and members of the Malaysian delegation to the 11th Film Festival in Asia, including businessman Loke Wan Tho and his wife Mavis. The pilot lost control while turning to return to the airport following a problem with the number one engine. 16 February 1968Flight 010, a Boeing 727-92C (B-1018), flew from Hong Kong to Taipei. Coming in to land at Taipei Songshan Airport, the plane failed to capture