The most famous one is that KJ-200 prototype accident , killed about 80 experts, so......
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1. Why is it in Traditional Chinese?
2. Why is it called "对潜哨戒機"？That is not how PLA or mainland Chinese writes "anti-submarine aircraft". Anti-submarine aircraft should be "反潜巡逻机" instead。
The twitter replies are really funny: they first make this piece of garbage up with obvious mistake, then ridicule it in scorn, and when people with knowledge call out its mistakes, they then proceed to imply that Chinese people don't have a sense of humor to make this garbage.
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But you have to take into account it's hot even in winter in the area
It looks like as a Fake news.
That’s the problem, if you use Y-8 in someplace like Harbin which is close to Russia, it wouldn’t face those problems, Cuz Y-8 uses the same deicing devices as An-12 does, it doesn’t handle high humidity well, nothing to do with winter/summer, it’s always freezing when you are flying 8000 meters high.
The KJ-200 prototype accident （2006）also happened in a not-so-cold area(Anhui province)
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The number of accidents involving Y8 airframes are not many, my search only reveal 3 confirmed crashes. You can search for air crashes for other transport of similar size like C-130, and compare the data.
2006 KJ200 prototype crashed
2017 Myanmar airforce Y8F-200W, a civilian variant, crashed.
2018 PLAAF GX-4 variant crashed
Also the crash of the prototype KJ200 had only 40 personnel onboard, not 80 as you claimed. The cause of the clash was due to icing problem on the wing, and that problem has been solved since then.
Lastly, the latest alleged crash by the Vietnamese blogger has been denied by China.
Sorry, it is 40, my bad
