2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, and in the past three decades, China-SOUTH Korea economic and trade exchanges have become increasingly prosperous and people-to-people relations have become increasingly close. Some young people are widely influenced by Korean pop culture, such as K-pop, idol drama, makeup methods, music forms, and rice circle culture, so that they have developed a close feeling towards Korea, and they are keen to travel to Korea, learn Korean, and so on. Whenever the older generation sees this scene, they always lament that the puppet culture of South Korea has poisoned the minds of young people, trying to pass on the idea of pro-Korean anti-Koreanism to future generations.
In fact, this also reflects the drastic transformation of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea from complete hostility to normalization of relations. So what is the fuse for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea? In fact, history is full of accidents, and who would have thought that it was an unlucky plane that helped China and South Korea, which were at the second and third largest in the Asian economy at that time, to move on the path of normal relations.
The British-produced Trident airliner
10:00 on May 5, 1983. China Civil Aviation Trident No. 296 passenger plane quietly stopped at Shenyang Dongta Airport, the crew nervously and meticulously did the final inspection work before the plane took off, the flight attendants also greeted the arrival of passengers with smiles, and there were very few Chinese people who could take the plane in the 80s, so the ground safety inspection mechanism at that time was also very rough. At some airports, ground inspectors are said to allow passengers to board the plane simply by looking at the boarding pass symbolically.
And the flight attendant environment at that time was also very relaxed, not only can smoke, but even on the plane like today's distribution of small bread, giving away cigarettes and Maotai as snacks, the seats have the cabin crew carefully prepared cigarette troughs, but also can watch the flight attendants improvised dance. The clouds and mist fluttering with fairy spirits, the intertwining of fine wines and delicacies, and the singing and dancing of the skinny swallows of the rings are obviously far happier than the boring opportunity of painting the ground as a prison, with big eyes and small eyes, holding hands and looking at tears and tears without words. But this relaxed environment undoubtedly brings hidden dangers to the safety of the aircraft.
Airliner of the 1980s
At 10:49, the plane took off on time. There were a total of 96 passengers on the plane, all of whom were Chinese citizens except for 3 Japanese business personnel who came to China to investigate. Although the Trident aircraft is old, fortunately, the crew is experienced, and the aircraft has safely and safely passed the most dangerous take-off "black three minutes" and safely climbed to a height of 10,000 meters. The plane entered the cruising stage in the stratosphere, the air flow was stable, and the passengers gradually eased from the discomfort of weightlessness, some overlooking the clouds under the plane, some smoking the cigarettes given by the crew, and some of the surface silent pretense actually began to secretly look forward to the performance on the plane... According to the experience of the past, the passengers finished eating, tasting wine, or taking a nap or enjoying the performance, with a little sweet memories with the plane landing safely in Shanghai, to their respective destinations, everything is so beautiful, peaceful and peaceful.
Flight attendants in the 1980s
That's how it should have been.
A sharp alarm bell broke the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere on the plane, and the passengers' beautiful expectations came to an abrupt end, in fact, what they were about to experience was unforgettable pain, and it became the nightmare of many people's lives. The first to react were the crew in the cockpit. After all, they were trained professionals, and they immediately woke up from the relaxation of Fang Cai and realized the occurrence of aircraft risk events. The plane's alarm bells rang only in the event of an emergency, and as they tried to contact the aircrew in the passenger compartment to inquire about the situation behind them, they tried to check whether the aircraft's mechanical operations had malfunctioned, when a gunshot increased the tension.
The form of the cockpit at that time
The bullet bounced off the cockpit gate, thanks to the crew's strict and meticulous arrangement before the plane took off, the hatch lock was dead, the hijacker saw that he could not open the hatch, and his heart shot at the door with a gun, and some bullets penetrated the steel plate, piercing the floor of the cab, stirring up a burst of smoke, the door was still not moving, and the robbers who had lost patience began to kick the door with their feet, and this time the gate finally failed to prevent the impact, and the door opened. A series of activities consumed more time than the robbers expected, and the anxious robbers opened fire, wounding two flight attendants and forcing the captain to change the course of the plane and fly toward Seoul.
Cunning robbers disrupted the communication system on board the plane to communicate with the ground, cutting off communication between ground and air crews. In order to protect the lives and property of all the people on the plane, the abducted captain had to temporarily follow the robbers' intentions and change the route to the south to the east. The captain once tried to control the landing of the plane in Dalian, Dandong and even Pyongyang, North Korea, but the robbers seemed to know a lot about flying instruments, and whenever the captain tried to use the information difference between himself and the robbers to deliberately misinterpret the channels requested by the robbers, he was always quickly detected by the robber leader, which could not help but make people doubt the true identity of the robbers.
Four robbers
In the struggle again and again, the robbers lost patience and warned the captain that if he was not honest, the result would be only the death of one machine man. When he had no choice, the captain had to temporarily abandon the resistance and flew over the 38th line with the plane to the South Korean airspace that the Chinese mainland passenger plane had never touched. The Rokkawi Air Force sensed a strange Chinese mainland airliner intruding into its airspace and quickly dispatched a fighter to follow it. Passenger planes gradually descended, and Ground Facilities in South Korea became clearly visible. The robbers noticed an asphalt runway— it was a small airport. In fact, this airport is only for helicopters, the runway is too short compared to the passenger aircraft, and what is more frightening is that the end of the runway is an abyss, once the aircraft cannot be stopped, the aircraft is very likely to fall off the cliff. Saying that it was late and fast, the captain stared at the moment when the plane landed, stepped on the reverse brake, pulled down the reverse bulldoze and did his best to slow down the plane, the captain's heart fluttered and jumped, and the hand that clenched the counter-push was soaked with cold sweat.
The "Ghost" fighter, South Korea's choice to accompany the Chinese airliner at that time
Fortunately, the sky did not kill me, and the plane slowly stopped at the end of the runway. The U.S. military police who were watching from the sidelines were stunned. As soon as the robbers got off the plane, they took all the passengers hostage and asked to meet with the Taiwan side's puppet embassy in South Korea. It turned out that they were actually criminals on our side, and in order to escape the punishment of the law, they hijacked a plane and flew to South Korea, which maintained good relations with the Taiwan authorities at that time, so as to extradite to Taiwan. After some haggling negotiations, the U.S. and South Korean authorities handed over the robbers to the Taiwanese embassy in South Korea. The robbers were gone, but the travelers from Chinese mainland were no doubt worried, having arrived in an unknown country with decades of antagonism. Faced with an unpredictable future, they have to choose to go with the flow.
Planes that landed in South Korea
To the surprise of The Chinese passengers, after a short discussion, the South Korean side not only did not Chinese mainland passengers, but also solved the problem of food and accommodation for mainland passengers and aircraft maintenance personnel at its own expense. Not only did they stay in luxury hotels, but they also took the initiative to arrange for Chinese mainland tourists to visit the scenic spots and monuments in Seoul, and when Chinese tourists set off to return home, they also gave away a large number of electronic products that were unheard of at Chinese mainland that time, which undoubtedly left a deep impression on the Chinese citizens who arrived in South Korea outside. It was also the first group of chinese volunteers to visit the southern part of the peninsula in more than thirty years since the third battle of the Korean War, when the Chinese Volunteers captur Chinese mainland ed Seoul.
Seoul scenery in the 1970s
It turned out that after the "Miracle of the Han River" led by Park Chung-hee in the 1970s, the Korean economy developed rapidly, Korean industry took off, and the demand for markets and raw materials increased rapidly. Seeing that China has begun to reform and open up, economic cooperation between China and Europe and the United States has also made breakthrough progress, and both the United States, Japan, or West Germany have made a lot of money by taking advantage of this good international situation. South Korea naturally wants to get a piece of the pie, but it can't pull down, suffering from the lack of a good opportunity similar to the "ping-pong diplomacy" style between China and the United States. Who knew that an uninvited guest would give South Korea an opportunity to show goodwill to the Chinese mainland, and naturally it was necessary to properly place Chinese citizens and make a friendly gesture.
Chinese mainland also quickly sent personnel to secretly contact the South Korean side to discuss the return of passengers, and the two sides found that each other was not incomprehensible, and the negotiations were successful. Because China had not yet established diplomatic relations with the ROK at that time, the Chinese delegation signed a memorandum of understanding with the ROK government in the name of the civil aviation company, which is also a beautiful talk in the history of world diplomacy.
The Chinese and ROK delegations held talks in Seoul
The passengers eventually returned safely to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. A disembarking passenger told reporters: "In Seoul, someone asked where we would like to go? We did not hesitate to answer' must return to the motherland!' ’”
The first exchange between China and South Korea after the Korean War was carried out in this unexpected hijacking incident, the two sides found that they had common interests, and soon realized the normalization of economic and cultural exchanges, while the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea was not officially realized until more than a decade later, in 1992, 30 years ago, on August 24.
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