Instructors from the 581st were also tasked to train CIA-employed Civil Air Transport civilian aircrews in the C-119.
Among the dead were 20 Americans, one Briton and members of the Malaysian delegation to the 11th Film Festival in Asia, including businessman Loke Wan Tho and his wife Mavis.
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Before landing to Taipei Songshan Airport, the plane failed to capture ILS signal from TSA, caused it crashed at Linkou, resulting in 21 deaths for all 52 passengers.
Civil Air Transport transported 5,583 Kuomintang soldiers and 1,040 dependents to Taiwan.
At the end of World War Two, the General purchased several surplus military aircraft to create the Civil Air Transport (later Air America), an officially private company which in fact worked for the CIA and with other Western and allied governments throughout the Chinese Civil War, Korean War, First Indochina War, and Vietnam War.
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Pilots from a CIA Taiwan-based front organisation, Civil Air Transport, flying CIA B-26 Invader aircraft, repeatedly bombed and machine-gunned targets in and around Palu; destroying vehicles, buildings, a bridge and a ship.
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