Incidents and Accidents
- On January 18, 1988, China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146, a Ilyushin 18D crashed while on approach to Chongqing Airport. All 108 people on board were killed.
- On October 2, 1990, a hijacked Xiamen Airlines airliner sideswiped a China Southwest Airlines Boeing 707 before crashing into a third airliner. Nobody on the 707 died.
- On February 24, 1999, Flight 4509 crashed into a field while on approach to Wenzhou Airport, killing all 61 passengers and crew members on board.
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—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)