1976 CAAC Antonov An-24 accident near Changsha
Antonov An-24RW and Unknown · The 1976 CAAC Antonov An-24 accident near Changsha occurred on 21 January 1976
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 42 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Aircraft 1 · Antonov An-24RW
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- B-492
- Operator
- Caac
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport (old), People's Republic of ChinaTo Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA)
Aircraft 2 · Unknown
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1976 CAAC Antonov An-24 accident near Changsha occurred on 21 January 1976. On that day, a CAAC Antonov An-24RW, which was on a domestic scheduled flight from Guangzhou to Shanghai with scheduled stopovers in Changsha and Hangzhou, crashed near Changsha Airport. All 42 occupants of the aircraft died in the accident.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was on approach to Changsha-Datuopu Airport. As it descended below the cloud cover, eyewitnesses observed that the approach was being flown unstabilised. The aircraft rolled to the left and struck the ground. In the process
all 42 occupants died.
Investigation and cause
Cause
Since the aircraft was not equipped with a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, the Chinese investigators were unable to determine a definitive cause of the accident. It was suspected that the accident had occurred after the port engine had failed due to icing.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der CAAC bei Changsha 1976” (revision 239558682, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der CAAC bei Changsha 1976
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 239558682 · 2023-11-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q123574606
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der CAAC bei Changsha 1976" (page 12863541, revision 239558682), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- "scheduled flight" in the article's opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.