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Only four passenger 747-200s were delivered to China Airlines, all from 1979 to 1980. The other three had been in full passenger service until 1999 when they were converted to freighters. They were immediately grounded by the ROC 's Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) after the crash for maintenance checks.
On September 27, 1979, the aircraft suffered a nose gear fire and was written off after a mishandled rejected takeoff, which caused damage to the aircraft's wiring and cockpit equipment. Since 77% of the aircraft's service life remained, it underwent extensive repairs at the Shanghai Aviation Repair Plant of CAAC.
March 10 – The United States Air Force sends Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft to monitor the civil war in Yemen.; March 14 A CAAC Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E (registration B-274) on a training flight crashes into a factory in Beijing, China, during its initial climb after takeoff from Beijing Xijiao Airport, killing all 12 people on the plane and ...
China Airlines Flight 831 was a scheduled passenger flight from Kaohsiung in Taiwan to British Hong Kong that was hijacked on March 9, 1978. Aircraft
China Airlines Flight 006 - Another case where a Boeing aircraft entered an uncontrolled nose-dive; China Eastern Airlines Flight 583 — Another slat extension in-flight accident; Partnair Flight 394 - Another instance where using the APU as the power source caused a stoppage in recording of the Cockpit Voice Recorder. United Airlines Flight 585
The aircraft, registered as N807FT, made its first flight on 1 November 1979, before being delivered new to Flying Tiger Line on 11 December 1979. Its manufacturer serial number was 21828 and its construction number was 408. At the time of the accident, it had flown over 9,000 flight cycles and 34,000 airframe hours. [4] [5]
The Three Links or Three Linkages (Chinese: 三通; pinyin: sān tōng) was a 1979 proposal from the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to open up postal, transportation (especially airline), and trade links between mainland China and Taiwan, [1] with the goal of unifying Mainland China and Taiwan.
Swissair Flight 316 was an international scheduled passenger service from Zurich, Switzerland to Peking, China (now Beijing) via Geneva, Athens, and Bombay (now Mumbai). The aircraft, named Uri , was piloted by Captain Fritz Schmutz and First Officer Martin Deuringer.