Date: | Tuesday 2 October 1990 |
Time: | 09:04 |
Type: | Boeing 757-21B |
Owner/operator: | China Southern Airlines |
Registration: | B-2812 |
MSN: | 24758/282 |
Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 46 / Occupants: 122 |
Other fatalities: | 82 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport (CAN) -
China
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport (CAN/ZGGG) |
Destination airport: | Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport (SHA/ZSSS) |
Narrative:A Boeing 757-21B passenger plane, registered B-2812, was destroyed when it was struck by a Boeing 737 on Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport (CAN), China.
The airplane was waiting for takeoff clearance for a domestic flight to Shanghai when a Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737, registered B-2510, was inbound for an emergency landing, The airplane was hijacked and the captain was forced to make a fuel low emergency landing at Guangzhou.
During landing or in the final phase of the approach a struggle took place in the cockpit. The Boeing 737 touched down hard and swung to the right. It clipped a parked China Southwest Airlines Boeing 707 (B-2402) plane, ripping open the cockpit. The 737 continued and struck the left wing and fuselage of the Boeing 757.
A total of 120 occupants of both aircraft were killed. Eight people later died in hospital. Among the fatalities, 82 victims came from B-2510 and 46 from B-2812.
Sources:
Aviation Week & Space Technology 8 October 1990 (31)
FSF Flight Safety Digest December 1990 (p.13-14) Correlation of Trauma and Cause of Death to Accident Reconstruction: A Case of a Flight Accident Report / Jian-Xiong Min, M.D. and Min-Zhueng Jia, M.D. (Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 37, issue 2)
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