Great China Airlines Flight 9565 incident
De Havilland Canada Dash 8 · Passenger attempted arson
From Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA) to Chiayi Airport (CYI)
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
- Aircraft type
- 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
- Operator
- Great China Airlines
- 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.
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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.