Wuhan Airlines (S: 武汉航空, T: 武漢航空, P: ''Wǔhàn Hángkōng'') was an

airline An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...

based in

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...

of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. In 2003, it merged into

China Eastern Airlines China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (), also known as China Eastern, is an airline headquartered in the China Eastern Airlines Building, on the grounds of Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Changning District, Shanghai. It i ...

Historical Fleet

*4 Avia 14 Registration #: B-4209, B-4210, B-4211, B-4212 (B-4211 crashed near Lanzhou on 8 October 1992) *2 Boeing 737-36R Registration #: B-2969, B-2988 *3 Boeing 737-3Q8 Registration #: B-2918, B-2919, B-2928 *1 Boeing 737-3S3 Registration #: B-2976 *2 Boeing 737-86R Registration #: B-2660, B-2665 *5 Yunshuji Y-7 Registration #: B-3442, B-3443, B-3471, B-3472, B-3479 *3

Xian MA60 The Xian MA60 (新舟60, ''Xīnzhōu liùshí'', "Modern Ark 60") is a turboprop-powered airliner produced by China's Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). The MA60 is a stretched versio ...

Registration #: B-3430, B-3431, B-3432 (now under

colors)

Accidents and incidents

*On June 22, 2000, a Wuhan Airlines flight from Enshi to

was forced to circle for 30 minutes due to thunderstorms. The aircraft eventually crashed on the banks of Han River in

Hanyang District Hanyang District () forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. Currently, it is a district and stands between the Han River (right/southern bank) ...

, all on-board perished (there were varying accounts of number of crews and passengers). In addition, the crash also killed 7 people on the ground.

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