The Story Of 'Miss Macao': The World’s First Commercial Airline Hijacking

Seventy-four years ago, in 1948, four armed Chinese men hijacked a Catalina flying boat operated by the Macau Air Transport Company. The incident resulted in the aircraft crashing into the Zhujiang River estuary, killing all but one of the 27 people onboard. This was the first recorded hijacking of a commercial aircraft in civil aviation history.

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