![]() ![]() La Verrier, an Air France SNCAC NC.223.4 mail plane, disappeared on the first leg of a flight from Marseille to Damascus with stopovers in Bizerte and Beirut on November 24, 1940. The plane caught fire and never flew again. Nine people died, including the American pilot Walter "Foxie" Kent and Chinese architect Chang-Kan Chien. On 29 October 1940, the same DC-2 involved in the previous shootdown incident as Kweilin, now renamed Chungking, operated by CNAC, was destroyed by Japanese fighters at Changyi Airfield, Yunnan, China, after it made a scheduled landing and was coming to a stop. The plane made a forced landing in a rice field and was strafed, but both occupants survived. XXV, a Junkers Ju-52/3mte of Eurasia, was attacked by 3 Japanese fighters on a delivery flight near Kunming on October 26, 1940. Air France F-AQBA į-AQBA, another Dewoitine D.338 of Air France, was shot down by a Japanese military fighter over the Gulf of Tonkin on July 7, 1940. Air France F-ARTD į-ARTD, a Dewoitine D.338 of Air France, was accidentally shot down by French anti-aircraft fire near Ouistreham on June 20, 1940. All seven passengers and two crew members on board died. The bombers opened fire with their machine guns and badly damaged the Kaleva, causing it to ditch into seawater in the Gulf of Finland, a few kilometers northeast of Keri lighthouse. A few minutes after taking off in Tallinn, the Kaleva was intercepted by Soviet DB-3s. This occurred during the Interim Peace between Finland and the Soviet Union, three months after the end of the Winter War, and a year before the Continuation War began. The Kaleva (registered OH-ALL) was a civilian Junkers Ju 52-3/mge passenger aircraft operated by Finnish carrier Aero O/Y which was shot down by two Soviet Ilyushin DB-3 bombers on 14 June 1940, over the Baltic Sea while en route from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki, Finland. The surviving crew and passengers were taken POW. The pilot made a forced landing near Arques, killing the navigator and injuring 2 passengers. OO-AUI, a Douglas DC-3-227B owned by Sabena, was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Calais on a flight from Merville to London on May 23, 1940. The plane was refurbished, renamed the Chungking, and was later involved in a second shootdown incident, in 1940. It was later believed to be an assassination attempt on Chinese president Sun Yat-sen's only son, Sun Fo, who was believed by the Japanese to be aboard but missed the flight. Three prominent Chinese bankers, Hu Yun, Xu Xinliu (Singloh Hsu), and Wang Yumei, were among the dead. 15 people died when the Kweilin, which made an emergency water landing to avoid the attack, was strafed by the Japanese and sunk in a river. On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces.
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