1983 Guilin Airport collision

1983 Guilin Airport collision
Accident
Date	14 September 1983
Summary	Ground collision
Site	Guilin Qifengling Airport, China
Total fatalities	at least 11
Total injuries	at least 21
Total survivors	at least 95
First aircraft
	; A CAAC trident similar to the accident aircraft
Type	Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E
Operator	CAAC Airlines, Guangzhou division (now China Southern Airlines)
Registration	B-264
Flight origin	Guilin Qifengling Airport, China
Destination	Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK/ZBAA)
Passengers	100
Crew	6
Fatalities	11
Injuries	21
Survivors	95
Second aircraft
Type	Harbin H-5
Operator	People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)

25°11′38″N 110°19′13″E / 25.1939°N 110.3203°E / 25.1939; 110.3203

The 1983 Guilin Airport collision was a ground collision between a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Harbin H-5 bomber and a CAAC (Guangzhou Division, now China Southern Airlines) Hawker-Siddeley Trident at the military – civilian Guilin Qifengling Airport, killing 11 passengers.

The accident[edit]

On 14 September 1983, a military aircraft collided into a CAAC (Guangzhou Division, now China Southern Airlines) Hawker-Siddeley Trident at the Guilin Qifengling Airport. The Trident was taxiing for take-off when it was struck by the Harbin H-5, ripping a large hole in the forward fuselage of the Trident. On board the Trident bound for Beijing were 100 passengers and 6 crew; of the 106 on board 11 passengers died and 21 were injured.^[1]^[2] The fate of the Harbin H-5 and its crew was not reported.

References[edit]

^ Accident description for B-264 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 30 August 2014.
^ "Safety update" (PDF). Flight International: 873. 1 October 1983. Retrieved 31 August 2014.

External links[edit]

中国航空事故百年祭." CARNOC. 2012-10-09.

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[ASN-1] Accident description for B-264 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 30 August 2014.

[Flight011083-2] "Safety update" (PDF). Flight International: 873. 1 October 1983. Retrieved 31 August 2014.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in China
Before 1949	1922 Beijing-Han Airlines crash (March 1922) 1931 Jinan air crash (November 1931) Kweilin Incident (August 1938) Chungking Incident (October 1940) 1945 Peip'ing C-46 crash (October 1945) 1946 United States Air Force C-47 Crash at Yan'an (April 1946) Miss Macao (July 1948)
1950–1979	Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown (July 1954) Lin Biao incident (September 1971)
1980s	CAAC Flight 3303 (April 1982) CAAC Flight 2311 (December 1982) CAAC Flight 296 (May 1983) Guilin Airport collision (September 1983) Aeroflot Flight 101/435 (December 1985) China Airlines Flight 334 (May 1986) China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 (January 1988) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 (August 1989)
1990s	Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions (October 1990) China General Aviation Flight 7552 (July 1992) China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 (November 1992) China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 (July 1993) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5398 (October 1993) China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 (November 1993) China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 (June 1994) China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 (May 1997) China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 (February 1999) Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 (April 1999)
2000s	Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 (June 2000) Hainan Island incident (April 2001) China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 (May 2002) China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 (November 2004) PLAAF KJ-200 crash (June 2006) Avient Aviation Flight 324 (November 2009)
2010s	Henan Airlines Flight 8387 (August 2010) Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 (June 2012) Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633 (May 2018)
2020s	China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 (March 2022) Tibet Airlines Flight 9833 (May 2022)
Accidents and incidents in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are not included.

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