1990 People's Republic of China airliner collision

On 2 October 1990, Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, a Xiamen Airlines flight using a Boeing 737-247, was hijacked by Jiang Xiaofeng , a 21-year old Hunan, People's Republic of China purchasing agent seeking political asylum in the Republic of China. He demanded that the aircraft reroute to Taipei, Taiwan.

Prior to the hijacking and shortly after the aircraft took off from Xiamen, Jiang approached the cockpit while holding flowers. The security guards let him in; a '''' article stated that the guards likely let him through because they believed that Jiang was offering flowers to the pilots as a Moon Festival token. The article stated that reportedly, once in the cockpit, he opened his jacket to reveal what appeared to be fifteen pounds of explosives strapped to his chest. The article added that Jiang ordered all crew members except for the pilot out of the cockpit.

The captain of the flight explained to Jiang that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to reach Taipei, and proposed that he reroute to the instead. Jiang refused to listen, and the negotiations went on for some time until the captain, noting that fuel was getting too low for safety, decided that he had no choice but to land.

Moments before landing, Jiang managed to wrest control of the aircraft from the pilot. The plane landed at the former , travelling at an excessive speed, and sideswiped a parked China Southwest Airlines Boeing 707-3J6B, slightly injuring the pilot, who was on the flight deck at the time. Still unable to stop, the out-of-control airliner collided with a China Southern Airlines Boeing 757-21B waiting to depart to Shanghai, before flipping over on its back and skidding to a halt.

On the Xiamen Airlines 737, 7 of 9 crew members and 75 of 93 passengers died. A total of 128 people died in the disaster. Jiang, the hijacker of the Xiamen Airlines aircraft, died.

One American, a passenger of the Xiamen Airlines flight, survived the disaster. A on the China Southern aircraft survived.