China Airlines Flight 334

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China Airlines Flight 334

B-198, the aircraft involved, at Changi Airport a year before the incident.
Hijacking
Date	May 3, 1986 (1986-05-03)
Summary	Hijacking
Site	Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Guangdong, China
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 747-2R7F/SCD
Operator	China Airlines
Registration	B-198
Flight origin	Singapore Changi Airport
1st stopover	Don Mueang Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
2nd stopover	Kai Tak Airport, British Hong Kong
Destination	Chiang Kai-shek Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Occupants	3
Passengers	0
Crew	3
Fatalities	0
Survivors	3

China Airlines Flight 334 was a Boeing 747-2R7F/SCD freighter aircraft that was hijacked by pilot Wang Hsi-chueh (Chinese: 王錫爵), a former military U-2 pilot, on May 3, 1986, while en route to Don Mueang, Thailand. Wang had left family members behind in China when he left for Taiwan in 1949 and had met some of them in Hong Kong in 1984. He decided to defect in order to reunite with his family in China.^[1] Wang managed to subdue the two other crew members and changed course to land the 747 in Guangzhou, where he defected to the People's Republic of China. The incident forced the Chiang Ching-kuo government in Taiwan to reverse its Three Noes policy in regard to contacting the communist government in mainland China, and Chiang dispatched several delegates to Hong Kong to negotiate with mainland officials for the return of the aircraft and crew. The incident was credited as a catalyst in renewing cross-strait relations between mainland China and Taiwan.^[2][3]