China Airlines Flight 676
Some remains of the wreckage of flight 676, stored in a box. | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 16 February 1998 |
| Summary | Stalled and crashed while performing a go around |
| Site | Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (Short of airport), Taoyuan, Taiwan 25°05′22″N 121°13′42″E / 25.089512°N 121.228268°E |
| Total fatalities | 202 |
| Aircraft | |
| B-1814, the aircraft involved in the accident, in May 1997 | |
| Aircraft type | Airbus A300B4-622R |
| Operator | China Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | CI676 |
| ICAO flight No. | CAL676 |
| Call sign | DYNASTY 676 |
| Registration | B-1814 |
| Flight origin | Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, Indonesia |
| Destination | Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan |
| Occupants | 196 |
| Passengers | 182: 52 |
| Crew | 14 |
| Fatalities | 196 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Ground casualties | |
| Ground fatalities | 6 |
China Airlines Flight 676 was a scheduled international passenger flight. On 16 February 1998, the Airbus A300 jet airliner operating the flight crashed into a road and residential area in Tayuan, Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City), near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taiwan.
The Airbus A300 was en route from Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali, Indonesia, to Taipei, Taiwan. The weather was inclement, with rain and fog, when the aircraft approached Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, so the pilot executed a missed approach. After the jet was cleared to land at runway 05L, the autopilot was disengaged, and the pilots then attempted a manual go-around. The jet slowed, pitched up by 40°, rose 1,000 feet (300 m), stalled, and crashed into a residential neighbourhood, bursting into flames. All 196 people on board were killed (including the governor of Taiwan's central bank, Sheu Yuan-dong, his wife, and three central bank officials), along with six people on the ground. Hsu Lu, the manager of the Voice of Taipei radio station, said that one boy was pulled alive from the wreckage and later died.
At the time of the crash, it was the deadliest aviation accident on Taiwanese soil until the crash of China Airlines Flight 611. As of 2025, the crash remains the third deadliest accident in the history of China Airlines.