Itanagar

The crew was performing a cargo flight from Chabua AFB (Dibrugargh) to Tezpur with an intermediate stop in Ondal. En route, while cruising over the south part of Arunachal Pradesh in poor weather conditions, the aircraft crashed in a mountainous region located 11 km north of Itanagar. SAR operation were suspended after few days as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. Eventually, the wreckage was found in 2007.

The airplane named 'Pregnant Swan' departed Kunming on a flight to Chabua AFB, Assam. The crew failed to locate the destination airport and continued to the west. As the airplane failed to arrive in Chabua, SAR operations were initiated but eventually suspended as no trace of the airplane nor the crew was found. The wreckage was found 20 September 2008 in a dense wooded area located at an altitude of 2,800 feet near Itanagar, some 160 km west southwest of Chabua AFB. All 10 occupants were killed.
Crew:
Maj Robert W. Fensler, pilot,
2nd Lt Phillips G. Huffman, pilot,
2nd Lt Gerald E. Owens, copilot,
T/Sgt Erle H. Thayer, flight engineer,
S/Sgt Aubrey E. Stevenson, assistant flight engineer,
2nd Lt Frederick W. Ossenfort, navigator,
T/Sgt ​​Norman H. Prix, radio operator,
S/Sgt Louis F. Verhaegen, assistant radio operator,
2nd Lt Harvey M. Nix, bombardier,
S/Sgt Sandav E. Rivardo, air gunner.