China Xinjiang Airlines Flight 9501 accident
Tu-154 · Spatial disorientation
From Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport, China to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, China
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
- 173
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Tu-154
- 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-2603
- Operator
- China Xinjiang Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport, ChinaTo Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, China
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
China Xinjiang Airlines Flight 9501 was a flight from Ürümqi via Guangzhou to Shanghai. On 11 July 1988, after encountering thunderstorms and a failure of its navigation system, it made a forced landing in a rice paddy beyond the runway of Jiujiang Shilipu Airfield (abandoned as early as 1972); none of the 162 passengers and 11 crew members was killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “中國新疆航空9501號班機事故” (revision 72189124, 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: 中國新疆航空9501號班機事故
- Article
- 中國新疆航空9501號班機事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 72189124 · 2022-06-17 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q19851732
- 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 "中國新疆航空9501號班機事故" (page 4532975, revision 72189124), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- 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.