CAAC Flight 296

CAAC Flight 296

A CAAC Hawker Siddeley Trident, similar to the one involved
Hijacking
Date	5 May 1983
Summary	Domestic Chinese passenger flight hijacked to South Korea
Site	Camp Page, South Korea
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E
Operator	CAAC Airlines
Registration	B-296
Flight origin	Shenyang Dongta Airport [zh]
Destination	Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
Passengers	105
Crew	9
Fatalities	0
Injuries	2
Survivors	114 (all)

The hijacking of CAAC Flight 296, a Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E aircraft, took place on May 5, 1983. Flight 296 of China Civil Aviation Airlines (CAAC), a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Shenyang Dongta Airport [zh] to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, was hijacked by six Chinese nationals and was forced to land at Camp Page, a US military base in Chuncheon, South Korea.^[1]

At the time of the incident, China and South Korea did not have diplomatic relations.^[2] The incident contributed to the first official non-adversarial contact between China and South Korea before the establishment of diplomatic relations, which was a turning point in the relationship between the two sides. In the following series of incidents, the mutual hostility between China and South Korea in the process of handling or reporting began to fade, and the goodwill component increased greatly, laying a foundation for the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in the future.^[2]