Netaji’s plane didn’t crash in ’45: Taiwan

Netaji’s plane didn’t crash in ’45: Taiwan

Kolkata, Feb. 3: The Taiwan government has informed the one-man Netaji Commission of Inquiry that there was no air crash at Taihoku on August 18, 1945, till date believed to have killed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Disclosing this to newspersons after a routine hearing of the Commission here, Justice M K Mukherjee said that the Taiwan government has confirmed to the Commission during its recent visit to that country that no plane crashed at Taihoku between August 14 and September 20, 1945.
He said that the Taiwanese officials, who confirmed this fact, promised to provide documentary proof within 15 days. “During the period, from August 14 to October 25, 1945, no evidence shows that a plane had ever crashed at the old Matsuyama airport carrying Subhash Chandra Bose,” he said quoting an e-mail sent by Taiwanese Minister of Tra-nsport Lin Ling-San to a journalist, Anuj Dhar.
The Commission have been provided with two e-mails reportedly sent by Taiwanese officials. Taiw-an’s Ministry of External Affairs confirmed the e-mails as genuine. While another e-mail made a reference to a crash of a USC-47 transporter plane carrying 26 people during September 20-23, 1945. Most of them are bel-ieved to be former Americ-an PoWs just released from camps in the Philippines.
That plane, the e-mail said, crashed on Mount Trident in Taitung area, about 200 nautical miles away from Taipei. The Commission, which is going to submit its report by May 14, has sought more details about people died in the crash of USC-47.