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China Eastern Airlines Flight 5443 incident

1 May 2016 · Kangding Airport, Sichuan Province, China

Airbus A320 family · Controlled flight into terrain

From Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, China to Kangding Airport, China

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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
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
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

Airbus A320 family

Aircraft type
Airbus A320
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-6430
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, ChinaTo Kangding Airport, China

Approximate · Estimated position: Kangding Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.

From the Wikipedia article

China Eastern Airlines Flight 5443 (MU5443) was a short-haul domestic flight operated by China Eastern Airlines. The aircraft type was the Airbus A319. On 1 May 2016 it took off from Chengdu, and while landing at Kangding Airport, owing to bad weather at the airport, the aircraft touched down outside the runway, then immediately went around and returned to Chengdu. After landing in Chengdu it was found that the airliner's tyres were damaged, the right horizontal stabiliser had been pierced by a pipe, one system had lost all its hydraulic fluid, and six approach lights in four rows at Kangding Airport had been damaged, constituting a serious incident; fortunately, there were no casualties in the incident.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “中国东方航空5443号班机事件” (revision 90328927, 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: 中国东方航空5443号班机事件
Article
中国东方航空5443号班机事件
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
90328927 · 2025-11-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q24835163
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 "中国东方航空5443号班机事件" (page 5316584, revision 90328927), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
airport the Wikipedia infobox site names (OurAirports, exact name)
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 infobox: summary
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.