Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 306 incident
Boeing 757 and Thai Airways International Boeing 777 · Airborne near miss (Near Miss)
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
- 513
- 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
- 20
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Boeing 757
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 757
- 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-27015
- Operator
- Far Eastern Air Transport
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Not stated
- Survivors
- 137
- 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
- Not stated
- Route
- From Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Republic of ChinaTo Jeju International Airport, South Korea
Aircraft 2 · Boeing 777
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- 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
- HS-TKF
- Operator
- Thai Airways International
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Not stated
- Survivors
- 376
- 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
- Not stated
- Route
- From Incheon International Airport, South KoreaTo New Bangkok International Airport, Thailand
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
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 306 (EF-306) was a flight from Taoyuan International Airport to Jeju International Airport. On 16 November 2006, as the aircraft, carrying 129 people and 8 crew members, was preparing to descend for landing over Jeju Island, South Korea, it had a near miss with Thai Airways Flight 659, which had taken off from Incheon International Airport bound for New Bangkok International Airport, forcing both aircraft to make emergency evasive turns. The incident injured 14 passengers and 6 crew members aboard Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 306, 20 people in total; no one aboard Thai Airways Flight 659 was injured, and it continued its journey.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “遠東航空306號班機事故” (revision 94094375, 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: 遠東航空306號班機事故
- Article
- 遠東航空306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
- 94094375 · 2026-08-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15920185
- 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 "遠東航空306號班機事故" (page 596446, revision 94094375), 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: total_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.