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Miss Macao

25Fatalities
1Survivors
26On board

Accident details

What happened

Miss Macao, a Catalina seaplane en route from Macau to Hong Kong in southern China, is hijacked over the Pearl River delta by a group attempting to rob the passengers; following a struggle in the cockpit, a crash kills all but one of the 26 people on board (the sole survivor is later identified as the lead hijacker); this is the earliest known…

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