Artificial rain plane crashed in Jiangxi Province, damaging homes, five people on board were killed

According to the official notification, China Beidahuang General Aviation Company an aircraft this afternoon in the process of running artificial rainmaking tasks, crashed in the territory of Jiangxi Province, Ji’an County, also washed into the residential house caused by fire.

Jiangxi Provincial Meteorological Bureau official website at nearly 9 pm tonight to inform the Jiangxi provincial government was reported at 3:19 pm, the organization of emergency, fire, public security and other forces to carry out rescue quickly. So far, the scene of the fire has been extinguished, three houses were damaged, one villager was slightly injured has been sent to the hospital, to confirm the five people on board have been killed. The cause of the accident is being verified.

Public data shows that the number B-10GD double-screw aircraft, is the United States Beechcraft aircraft company (Beechcraft) production King Air350 small aircraft, specializing in rainmaking detection mission, the aircraft is equipped with a number of advanced detection equipment and airborne LIDAR.

Founded in 1985 in Heilongjiang, Beidahuang General Aviation is a subsidiary of the General Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation of Heilongjiang Province, with more than 100 aircraft, mainly operating artificial rainmaking, forest firefighting, pesticide spraying, aerial photography and aerial survey tasks, and is said to be the world’s largest agricultural and forestry professional airline.