Sancha Mountain incident
United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24 Liberator · Accident
From an unrecorded airport to Nielson Field
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
- 25 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Aircraft type
- Consolidated B-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
- Unknown
- Operator
- United States Army Air Forces
- Onboard fatalities
- 25
- Route
- From not recordedTo Nielson Field
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 Sancha Mountain incident refers to an air crash and mountain disaster that occurred in Taiwan on 10 September 1945, shortly after Japan announced its surrender in World War II. A military aircraft that had taken off from Okinawa, full of freed American prisoners of war, bound for Makati in the Philippines, crashed under the influence of a typhoon while flying northeast of Sancha Mountain in the southern section of Taiwan's Central Mountain Range, killing all 25 people on board. Japan, which still governed Taiwan at the time, formed a search and rescue team at the request of the Americans and entered the mountains to carry out the rescue; on the way another typhoon passed through, and the severe weather killed 26 members of the search and rescue team.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “三叉山事件” (revision 93953341, 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: 三叉山事件
- Article
- 三叉山事件
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93953341 · 2026-08-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q136205462
- 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 "三叉山事件" (page 8462816, revision 93953341), 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
- 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 article lead
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.