| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | October 02, 1990 |
| Time: | 0915 |
| Location: | Guangzhou, China |
| Operator: | China Southern Airlines / Xiamen Airlines |
| Flight #: | ?/8301 |
| Route: | Guangzhou - Shanghi |
| AC Type: | Boeing B-737-247 / Boeing B-757-21B |
| Registration: | B-2812/B-2510 |
| cn / ln: | 24758/282 / 23189/1072 |
| Aboard: | 226 (passengers:205 crew:21) |
| Fatalities: | 128 (passengers:121 crew:7) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Shortly after taking off a hijacker entered the cockpit and demanded to be flown to Hong Kong. The captain circled for 30 minutes and after a struggle in the cockpit, attempted to land at Guangzhou, hitting the runway hard, clipping a B-707, crashing into a B-757, filpping over and bursing into flames. Eighty-two aboard the B-737 and 46 aboard the B-757 were killed. Later figures suggest the death toll was 132 and included the hijacker and driver of a vehicle. |
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