Air China Flight 905 hijacking
Boeing 737 · Hijacking
From Beijing Capital International Airport, People's Republic of China to Yangon International Airport, Myanmar
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
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 104
- 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
- 0
- 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
- Airline
Boeing 737
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- 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-2949
- Operator
- Air China
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Beijing Capital International Airport, People's Republic of ChinaTo Yangon International Airport, Myanmar
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Air China Flight 905 hijacking refers to the incident on 28 October 1998 in which the flight, en route from Beijing to Kunming, was hijacked by its captain, Yuan Bin, to Chiang Kai-shek Airport in Taiwan (now Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport); the hijacker was subsequently detained by the Taiwanese police, and everyone else on board was unharmed. The incident is the most recent case to date of a mainland Chinese civil airliner being hijacked to Taiwan, and also a rare case of a hijacking by the pilot on duty.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “中國國際航空905號班機劫機事件” (revision 93421205, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Chinese Wikipedia article: 中國國際航空905號班機劫機事件
- Article
- 中國國際航空905號班機劫機事件
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93421205 · 2026-07-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16921852
- 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
- zh Wikipedia article "中國國際航空905號班機劫機事件" (page 3901101, revision 93421205), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.