China Southern Airlines Flight 3943

1992 aviation accident

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China Southern Airlines Flight 3943

The aircraft involved photographed a year prior to the accident

Accident
Date| 24 November 1992
Summary| Pilot error; loss of control
Site| 12.5 mi (20.1 km) south of Guilin Airport, China
25°03′33″N 110°09′21″E﻿ / ﻿25.0593°N 110.1559°E﻿ / 25.0593; 110.1559
Aircraft
Aircraft type| Boeing 737-3Y0
Operator| China Southern Airlines
Registration| B-2523
Flight origin| Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Destination| Guilin Qifengling Airport
Occupants| 141
Passengers| 131
Crew| 10
Fatalities| 141
Survivors| 0

China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 was a China Southern Airlines flight from the former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou to Guilin Qifengling Airport, Guilin, China on 24 November 1992. It crashed on descent to Guilin Airport, killing all 141 people aboard.

## Aircraft

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The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 737-3Y0, registration B-2523, that was equipped with a twin CFMI CFM56-3B-1 powerplant. With serial number 24913, it had its maiden flight on 10 May 1991 and was delivered new to China Southern Airlines on 23 May the same year.[1] The airframe was 1 year and 198 days old at the time of the accident, and had logged 4,165 flight hours and 3,153 cycles.[2]

## Accident

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Flight 3943 departed Guangzhou on a 55-minute flight to Guilin. During the descent towards Guilin, at an altitude of 7,000 feet (2,100 m), the captain attempted to level off the plane by raising the nose. The plane's autothrottle was engaged for descent, but the crew did not notice that the number 2 power lever was at idle. This led to an asymmetrical power condition. The airplane rolled to the right, and the crew was unable to regain control. At 07:52, the plane crashed into a mountain in the sparsely populated Guangxi region.[3] It was the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737-300 at the time, as well as the deadliest on Chinese soil;[3] as of June 2020[update], it is still the second-deadliest accident in both of those categories, behind Flash Airlines Flight 604,[4] and China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303,[5] respectively. It is also the accident with the highest number of fatalities involving a China Southern Airlines aircraft.[6]

## Nationalities

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There were 141 people on board, of whom 131 were passengers. Occupants of the aircraft were from the following nationalities:[2]

Nationality | Passengers | Crew  | Total

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Canada | 1 | —  | 1
Macau | 1 | —  | 1
Spain | 2 | —  | 2
China | 120 | 8  | 128
Taiwan | 9 | —  | 9
Total | 133 | 8  | 141

## Similar accidents

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* Sriwijaya Air Flight 182
* TAROM Flight 371
* United Airlines Flight 585
* USAir Flight 427

## References

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1. ^ "Boeing 737 – MSN 24913 – B-2523". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
2. ^ a b Kristof, Nicholas D. (25 November 1992). "Jet Crashes in China, Killing 141; 5th Serious Accident in 4 Months". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014.
3. ^ a b Accident description for B-2523 at the Aviation Safety Network
4. ^ "ASN accident description for SU-ZCF".
5. ^ Accident description for B-2610 at the Aviation Safety Network
6. ^ "China Southern Airlines accident record". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 18 June 2013.

## External links

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* Accident information at airfleets.net

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Before
1950|

* Beijing-Han Airlines crash (March 1922)
* Jinan air crash (November 1931)
* Kweilin Incident (August 1938)
* Chungking Incident (October 1940)
* Beiping (Beijing) C-46 crash (October 1945)
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1990s|

* Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions (October 1990)
* China General Aviation Flight 7552 (July 1992)
* China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 (November 1992)
* China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 (July 1993)
* China Eastern Airlines Flight 5398 (October 1993)
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* China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 (May 1997)
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* China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 (November 2004)
* PLAAF KJ-200 crash (June 2006)
* Avient Aviation Flight 324 (November 2009)

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* Henan Airlines Flight 8387 (August 2010)
* Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 (June 2012)
* Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633 (May 2018)

2020s|

* China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 (March 2022)
* Tibet Airlines Flight 9833 (May 2022)

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