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Great China Airlines Flight 9565 incident

23 Mar 1998 · Over Houlong Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan

De Havilland Canada Dash 8 · Passenger attempted arson

From Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA) to Chiayi Airport (CYI)

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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
Occurrence
Event fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
21
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

De Havilland Canada Dash 8

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-15229
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA)To Chiayi Airport (CYI)

Approximate · Estimated position: Houlong, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The Great China Airlines Flight 9565 incident took place on 23 March 1998 when, as a de Havilland Canada DHC-8 flying from Taipei Songshan Airport to Chiayi Airport arrived over Houlong Township, Miaoli County, a passenger, Lin Chin-wen, attempted to set a fire and hijack the aircraft and was subdued; there were no casualties.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “大華航空9565號班機事故” (revision 90036901, 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: 大華航空9565號班機事故
Article
大華航空9565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
90036901 · 2025-11-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q110105559
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 "大華航空9565號班機事故" (page 7487370, revision 90036901), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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.