ASN Aircraft accident Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E B-296 Chunchon Air Base
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Date:Thursday 5 May 1983
Type:Silhouette image of generic TRID model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E
Operator:CAAC
Registration: B-296
MSN: 2183
First flight: 1977
Engines: 3 Rolls-Royce Spey 512
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 105
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 111
Aircraft damage: None
Location:Chunchon Air Base (   South Korea)
Phase: En route (ENR)
Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Shenyang Airport (SHE/ZYTK), China
Destination airport:Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport (SHA/ZSSS), China
Narrative:
Six hijackers demanded to be taken to South Korea. In the process a CAAC crew member was injured after being shot in the leg. The Trident landed on the US Army Camp Page runway at Chunchon. It overran the runway by about 100 m but did not sustain damage. The airplane and passengers were later returned to China. Number of crew and passengers is presumed.

Classification:
Hijack
Runway excursion

Sources:
» Jim Kinney


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Distance from Shenyang Airport to Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport as the crow flies is 1185 km (740 miles).

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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