China PLA Air Force KJ-200 Accident
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China PLA Air Force KJ-200 Accident[1] is the crash of a modified airborne early warning Shaanxi Y-8 aircraft in China on June 3, 2006.
On June 3, 2006, a Chinese KJ-200 crashed in Guangde County in the Anhui province, China. All 40 people onboard were killed. The Chinese official explanation was that the accident was due to heavy ice formation on the wings after the aircraft made repeated passes in and out clouds in bad weather. As a result, the Central Military Committee of the Communist Party of China announced on the investigation result on September 7, 2006 and in the same announcement, it was declared that nearly a dozen high ranking military officers were punished by either being demoted/removed from their posts or censured, including:
- Jiang Jianzen (江建曾), the deputy commander-in-chief of the Nanjing military region and the commander-in-chief of the air force of Nanjing military region, was censured.
- Wang Wei (王伟), the deputy commissar of the Nanjing military region and the commissar of the air force of Nanjing military region, (Not Wang Wei the pilot) was censured.
- Yue Liuan (岳留安) deputy minister of equipment of the air force was censured.
- Guo Chunguang (郭春广), the deputy chief-of-staff the air force of Nanjing military region was demoted.
- Zhang Guangjian (张广建) a regimental commander of the air force of Nanjing military region was removed from his post.
- At least an additional half a dozen military officers were also punished.
However, the official Chinese report does not mention the exact type of the airborne early warning aircraft, only claiming that it was a 4-engine large military airplane.
