1983 Guilin Airport collision
CAAC Airlines Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E and People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Harbin H-5 · Runway incursion
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 11 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- About 95
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 27
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Aircraft 1 · Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E
- Aircraft type
- Hawker Siddeley Trident 2
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- B-264
- Operator
- CAAC Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Occupants
- 106
- Survivors
- 95
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 21
- Route
- From Guilin Qifengling Airport, ChinaTo Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)
Aircraft 2 · Harbin H-5
- Aircraft type
- Harbin H-5
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1983 Guilin Airport collision was a ground collision which occurred on 12 September 1983 between a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Harbin H-5 bomber and a CAAC Hawker-Siddeley Trident operating as Flight 264 at the military – civilian Guilin Qifengling Airport, killing 11 passengers and injuring 27 onboard the Trident. The fate of the crew of the Harbin H-5 is unknown.
Accident
At 9:34 local time, a Harbin H-5 collided with a Hawker-Siddeley Trident operating as CAAC Flight 264 at the Guilin Qifengling Airport. The Trident was taxiing for take-off when it was struck by the Harbin H-5, ripping a large hole in the forward fuselage of the Trident. On board the Trident, which was bound for Beijing, were 100 passengers and 6 crew; of the 106 on board 11 passengers died and 21 were injured. It was not reported what was the fate of the H-5's crew.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1983 Guilin Airport collision
- Revision
- 1365779670 · 2026-07-24 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q10843965
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1983 Guilin Airport collision" (page 43690697, revision 1365779670)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The article's text gives 12 September 1983; its infobox and Wikidata give 14 September 1983, used here.