Passengers boarding C.A.A.C Trident B284 from Hong Kong ( Kai Tak Airport ) to Guangzhou Baiyuan Airport on 13 December 1978. The aircraft was a new British-built Hawker-Siddley Trident registered in China as B284. It was later re-registered as B2216 when China changed to a four-digit aircraft registration system. According to reports, the plane was still lingering on in storage at Guangzhou Baiyuan Airport as recently as 2019 but looking rather sad for itself ) [photo].
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With reformation in mind, the opening-up of the Mainland skies to external aviation began in 1978. The CAAC Trident at Guangzhou in 2019 looking worse for wear.
Trident.
Yes @ "looking worse for wear" .... rather like "Chinarail" himself these days, who was the passenger about to board the plane in that 1978 picture. ( My first trip to "Red" China)
It's sistership B-2218 ran
It's sistership B-2218 ran off the runway in Hong Kong on 31 August 1988 after clipping approach lights. Six crew members and one passenger perished in the accident. The crash shut down Kai Tak Airport for more than six hours after the accident.(CAAC Flight 301)
Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAAC_Flight_301