The 1983 Guilin Airport collision was a ground collision between a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)

Harbin H-5 Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...

bomber and a

CAAC The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC; ) is the Chinese civil aviation authority under the Ministry of Transport. It oversees civil aviation and investigates aviation accidents and incidents. As the aviation authority responsible fo ...

(Guangzhou Division, now China Southern Airlines) Hawker-Siddeley Trident at the military – civilian

Guilin Qifengling Airport Guilin Qifengling Airport is a military airport in Guilin, Guangxi, China. Built in 1958, the airport originally served all commercial traffic to Guilin. It was poorly equipped to handle the rapid increase in tourism to the city during the 1990 ...

, killing 11 passengers.

The accident

On 14 September 1983, a military aircraft collided into a

(Guangzhou Division, now China Southern Airlines) Hawker-Siddeley Trident at the

. The Trident was taxiing for take-off when it was struck by the

, 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. The fate of the Harbin H-5 and its crew was not reported.

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The accident

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