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Republic of China Air Force Flight 1905 crash

21 Aug 1990 · Republic of China (Taiwan), Yunlin County

Beechcraft 1900 · Weather-induced controlled flight into terrain

From Songshan Air Force Base, Songshan District, Taipei City to Chiayi Airport (CYI)

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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
18 · 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
Military

Beechcraft 1900

Aircraft type
Beechcraft 1900
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
1905
Onboard fatalities
18
Route
From Songshan Air Force Base, Songshan District, Taipei CityTo Chiayi Airport (CYI)

Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.

From the Wikipedia article

The Shrine of the Eighteen Generals is a temple located in Chenghai Village, Dongshi Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan, which honours the Republic of China officers and soldiers who died in an air crash at this location on 21 August 1990.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “十八將軍祠” (revision 91006492, 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

Chinese Wikipedia article: 十八將軍祠
Article
十八將軍祠
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
91006492 · 2026-01-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q105582767
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
zh Wikipedia article "十八將軍祠" (page 7386871, revision 91006492), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
Wikipedia article coordinates
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.