China Southwest Airlines
| China Southwest Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | SZ |
| ICAO code : | CXN |
| Call sign : | CHINA SOUTHWEST |
| Founding: | 1987 |
| Operation stopped: | 2002 |
| Merged with: | Air China |
| Seat: | Chengdu Shuangliu Airport , Sichuan , People's Republic of China |
| Fleet size: | 46 |
| Aims: | k. A. |
| Website: | www.cswa.com ( Memento from November 5, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) |
| merged with Air China in 2002 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
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China Southwest Airlines was an airline based at Chengdu-Shuangliu Airport in the People's Republic of China . It emerged as one of six new airlines from CAAC Airlines , which was dissolved in 1988 . Air China initially had a monopoly on long-haul flights. The other five companies were responsible for domestic flights and traffic in the Asian region.
In 2002, China Southwest Airlines merged with Air China .
fleet
Before the merger with Air China, China Southwest Airlines had the following types of aircraft in its fleet:
Incidents
- On January 18, 1988, an Ilyushin Il-18 of China Southwest Airlines ( aircraft registration number B-222 ) crashed about 32 kilometers from its destination while approaching Chongqing-Jiangbei Airport . The cause was the tearing off of one engine and the failure of another. All 108 people on board (10 crew members and 98 passengers) were killed (see also China Southwest Airlines flight 4146 ) .
- On October 2, 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737-247 of Xiamen Airlines (B-2510) collided with two other aircraft at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport (old) . When the pilots wanted to make an emergency landing due to lack of fuel, there was a scuffle with the kidnapper during the landing phase, whereupon the plane landed hard and came off the runway. It collided with a parked Boeing 707 from China Southwest Airlines (B-2402) and a Boeing 757-21B from China Southern Airlines (B-2812) , the pilots of which were waiting for take-off clearance. In the runaway Boeing 737, 82 of the 102 people on board were killed, while in the Boeing 757, 46 of the 122 occupants were killed. In the Boeing 707 the only crew member on board survived. All three machines were destroyed (see also Xiamen Airlines flight 8301 ) .
- On February 24, 1999, a Tupolev Tu-154 (B-2622) crashed almost vertically onto a field while approaching Wenzhou Airport. All 61 passengers and crew were killed. The cause was a maintenance error on the elevator.
See also
Web links
Commons : China Southwest Airlines - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report IL-18D B-222 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 27, 2019.
- ↑ Accident report of the collision in Guangzhou: B-707 B-2402 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 27, 2019.
- ↑ Accident report of the collision in Guangzhou: B-737-200 B-2510 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 27, 2019.
- ↑ Accident report of the collision in Guangzhou: B-757 B-2812 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 27, 2019.
- ^ Accident report TU-154M B-2622 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 27, 2019.