Air China Flight 1350 hijacking
Airbus A321 · A passenger with a history of mental illness attempted to take the chief purser hostage
From Changsha Huanghua Airport, People's Republic of China to Capital International Airport, People's Republic of 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
- 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 A321
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A321
- 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-6555
- Operator
- Air China
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Changsha Huanghua Airport, People's Republic of ChinaTo Capital International Airport, People's Republic of China
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 1350 hijacking was a hijacking that took place aboard an Air China flight at 9:36 on 15 April 2018.
Course of events
The flight was Air China Flight 1350 (CA1350), a scheduled flight from Changsha to Beijing. At 8:40 on 15 April 2018, the flight took off from Changsha Huanghua International Airport. At 9:36 a passenger on the flight took the chief purser hostage using a pen, and the crew declared that they had encountered an act of hijacking and set transponder code 7500. The flight then diverted to Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport at 9:58. Air China announced that the flight had diverted to Zhengzhou for "public security reasons"; the Henan Armed Police Corps and the Henan Provincial Public Security Department arrived to deal with the situation. At 13:17 the incident had been dealt with, and there were no casualties.
The flight subsequently resumed at 18:59 and arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport at 20:24.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “中国国际航空1350号班机劫持事件” (revision 93835334, 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: 中国国际航空1350号班机劫持事件
- Article
- 中国国际航空1350号班机劫持事件
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93835334 · 2026-08-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q51881903
- 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 "中国国际航空1350号班机劫持事件" (page 6117529, revision 93835334), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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.