China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 was a

China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines Company Limited is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and is the largest airline in China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acqu ...

flight from the former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport,

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

to Guilin Qifengling Airport,

Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...

, China on 24 November 1992. It crashed on descent to Guilin Airport, killing all 141 people aboard.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 737-3Y0,

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B-2523, that was equipped with a twin CFMI CFM56-3B-1 powerplant. With serial number 24913, it had its maiden flight on 10 May 1991 and was delivered new to China Southern Airlines on 23 May the same year. The airframe was old at the time of the accident, and had logged 4,165 flight hours and 3,153 cycles.

Accident

Flight 3943 departed Guangzhou on a 55-minute flight to Guilin. During the descent towards Guilin, at an altitude of , the captain attempted to level off the plane by raising the nose. The plane's autothrottle was engaged for descent, but the crew did not notice that the number 2 power lever was at idle. This led to an asymmetrical power condition. The airplane rolled to the right, and the crew was unable to regain control. At 07:52, the plane crashed into a mountain in the sparsely populated Guangxi region. It was the deadliest accident involving a

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at the time, as well as the deadliest on Chinese soil; , it is still the second-deadliest accident in both of those categories, behind

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, and China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303, respectively. It is also the accident with the highest number of fatalities involving a China Southern Airlines aircraft.

Nationalities

There were 141 people on board, of whom 131 were passengers. Occupants of the aircraft were from the following countries or regions:

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References

External links

Accident information at airfleets.net
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