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In the early morning of October 28, 1998, the capital airport was busy as usual, and at 8:05, a Boeing 737 passenger plane with the number 2949 entered the runway.
The plane, an international flight of Air China CA905, was carrying 94 passengers who were flying to Yangon, Myanmar via Kunming.
It was the traditional Chung Yeung Festival, and the planes took off on time, the passengers seemed very relaxed, and it seemed that the trip would go smoothly.
In the cockpit of the plane, captain Yuan Bin and co-captain Wen Fei also controlled the plane as usual, and after more than 40 minutes of flight, the plane came to the sky over Taiyuan.
At this time, the aircraft had already entered the stratosphere and was in a state of stable flight. Suddenly, the captain next to him, Yuan Bin's face changed, and he whispered to Wen Fei: "I want to fly the plane to Taiwan, you have to cooperate with me!" ”
Wen Fei was confused by the captain's words all of a sudden, but he didn't take it to heart, thinking that the captain thought the cockpit was too dull and wanted to joke with him.
However, Wen Fei soon realized that the situation was wrong, and the captain Yuan Bin called his wife Xu Mei into the cockpit and asked her to close the hatch.
Wen Fei understood now that Yuan Bin was not joking with him, otherwise he would not have let his wife enter the cockpit illegally for a joke. This sudden change made Wen Fei's mind go blank, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.
Right now, Yuan Bin and his wife in the cabin have taken the lead, and they can't resist alone, after Xu Mei closes the cabin door, it is difficult for the crew members outside to get in.
Wen Fei hurriedly persuaded Yuan Bin with good words, constantly reminding Yuan Bin of the consequences of doing so, the two of them have been colleagues for more than four years, and he hopes to move Yuan Bin.
No matter how to persuade Wen Fei, Yuan Bin was unmoved, in order to make Wen Fei obedient, he also deliberately tilted the plane to blackmail Wen Fei.
Wen Fei could only listen to Yuan Bin's words first, and when Yuan Bin saw that he was in control of the cockpit, he immediately turned on the radio and informed the passengers in the plane of going to Taiwan.
Subsequently, Yuan Bin piloted the plane back to Beijing, and then transferred to Taiwan via Beijing. Wen Fei did not give up resistance, and he told the air traffic control center about the hijacking of the plane through the plane's radio channel.
Upon learning that the captain hijacked the plane to fly to Taiwan, the air traffic control center immediately reported the emergency, and they also contacted the plane as soon as possible, and the air traffic control center continued to persuade Yuan Bin, hoping that he would realize his mistake.
No matter how much they tried to persuade them, Yuan Bin did not change his mind, and his wife, Xu Mei, had already sensed the seriousness of the problem.
Soon, the National Defense Forces sent two warplanes to the sides of the plane, and the pilots kept broadcasting to Yuan Bin to stop the hijacking immediately.
Xu Mei's face was pale, and when she saw the fighter next to her, she trembled with fright, and Wen Fei was so nervous that she broke out in a cold sweat. But when Yuan Bin saw the fighter interception, he still did not change his mind, his psychological quality was quite good, and he concluded that there were more than 90 passengers on his plane, and the fighter plane had to take into account the lives of the passengers, so he naturally did not dare to forcibly intercept it. Sure enough, seeing Yuan Bin's tough attitude, the fighter in charge of intercepting did not dare to act rashly.
The Civil Aviation Administration is also worried that if Yuan Bin continues to be provoked, if he takes an extreme route and causes a plane crash, the consequences will be even more serious. As a result, everyone did not continue to put pressure on Yuan Bin, and the Civil Aviation Administration immediately told Taiwan's China Airlines what happened here and asked them to assist in handling it.
At 10:18 a.m., Yuan Bin drove the plane to Fujian, and after seeing the hijacked passenger plane, the Xiamen air traffic control station immediately contacted the Taipei Zhongzheng Air Station.
The Taiwan side has learned about the situation, and in order to ensure the safety of the passenger planes, they immediately dispatched two F5E fighters from the Taoyuan base and sent two more fighters to participate in the escort.
It didn't take long for them to discover the target, and Yuan Bin saw that he had come to Taiwan, and his hanging heart was relaxed. He happily piloted the plane and arrived at Taoyuan Airport under the escort of Taiwan military fighters.
After the plane landed safely, Yuan Bin immediately contacted the Taiwan side by radio, and he told the other party that he and his wife were going to get off the plane and asked them to receive them well.
Unexpectedly, when he opened the cabin door, the armed police, who had already been prepared, immediately rushed in, and as soon as they entered, they asked about the identity of the hijacker. Yuan Bin said that it was himself, and the next second he and his wife were arrested by the Taiwan police on the spot, which made Yuan Bin very shocked. Not only did the Taiwan authorities not hold a grand welcoming ceremony to greet him, but they also directly arrested him, and what he did not expect was that he had been carefully planning for such a long time, and in the end it would turn into a farce.
Of course, both the mainland and Taiwan are also very puzzled by this farce.
Because, Yuan Bin and his wife, who hijacked the plane, not only have a good standard of living in the mainland, but their jobs and incomes are far better than those around them.
Everyone doesn't understand, with such a good life, why would they risk hijacking a plane to Taiwan? What's even more speechless is why they chose this point in time to hijack the plane to Taiwan?
Based on the police's subsequent interrogation of Yuan Bin and his wife, as well as the investigation and interviews of their surrounding relatives, the truth of the case surfaced, and the reason for Yuan Bin and his wife's hijacking and fleeing was even more speechless: This is too stupid.
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Yuan Bin is a native of Hubei, and his family conditions have been quite good since he was a child, and he himself is also very smart. In 1989, Yuan Bin was admitted to the Civil Aviation University of China, where his academic performance has been very good, and he also entered Air China after graduation.
After the reform and opening up, China's civil aviation field has developed rapidly, many civil aviation companies were established at this stage, and Air China, which was just established in 1988, quickly became a giant in this field by virtue of its strong strength. In order to achieve rapid development, Air China has recruited a large number of young talents, and Yuan Bin has become one of the first elite talents to join Air China.
Soon, Yuan Bin became the company's key training object, and he became the co-pilot after a few years, and became a regular at the age of 29.
Becoming a pilot of Air China's international flights before the age of 30 is extremely rare even now, it can be said that Yuan Bin is the pride of the sky in the eyes of the people around him, and he has also gained beautiful love when his career is developing rapidly.
He met his wife, Xu Mei, who was three years younger than him, and who was a teacher at a primary school in Beijing, and had a good and stable job. The two soon entered the palace of marriage, one of them is an Air China pilot, and the other is a teacher at a Beijing school, such family conditions are indeed excellent.
However, even if the family conditions are superior and the husband and wife live in harmony, Yuan Bin still feels dissatisfied. As an Air China pilot, Yuan Bin's salary is quite good, with a fixed income of up to 12,000 yuan per month, as well as various welfare subsidies and overtime pay, and his monthly income can reach more than 20,000 yuan.
In addition, Yuan Bin's family conditions were already very good, so his small life was quite comfortable, and he bought himself a Jetta car. But Yuan Bin was not satisfied with this, he still longed for more.
In 1998, the housing reform was implemented in the country, and the matter of subdivision gradually became a thing of the past.
However, Air China and other units still fought for the welfare of their own employees and successfully got the last batch of housing, which made many employees very happy, and everyone wanted to get this last opportunity to share the house.
Yuan Bin and his wife already have a house in Chaoyang District, with an area of more than 110 square meters, and according to Air China's regulations, the captain's housing is not less than 110 square meters, which belongs to the treatment standard of the bureau level.
Yuan Bin's house has actually reached this standard, and the location is quite good, and his wife Xu Mei is very satisfied with it.
Yuan Bin didn't think so, he knew that the unit was divided this time, and the captain would definitely be able to get the quota first, so he naturally didn't want to miss this opportunity, anyway, there would definitely be no harm in getting an extra set.
Xu Mei didn't approve of her husband's approach at first, but it can be seen that her husband insists on it, so she can only listen to her husband. After making up his mind, Yuan Bin quickly got in touch with the leader, he was already the captain, and all the standards met the requirements, and the leader agreed to him, promising that his name would be in the room distribution list.
This made Yuan Bin very happy, and he returned home and waited for his new house with peace of mind.
But on the day of the room division, Yuan Bin unexpectedly found that he did not appear in the list, so he failed to get the housing allocated by the unit.
This incident made Yuan Bin feel very angry, he felt that he had been tricked, and after arguing with the leader to no avail, Yuan Bin, who was angry and embarrassed, decided to take a risk.
He wants to do a big ticket and directly hijack the plane to go to Taiwan, giving Air China a lesson that despises him.
He told his wife about his plan, and his wife naturally disagreed at first, but he couldn't resist Yuan Bin's repeated persuasion, and finally the husband and wife reached an agreement.
The two planned for a long time, and finally on the day of implementation, Yuan Bin bought a ticket for his wife in advance for the right location.
As soon as the plane was in the air, he immediately let his wife into the cockpit to help him control the plane, and the two of them took the plane to Taiwan together.
Yuan Bin's plan was perfect, and the plane was indeed brought to Taiwan by him, but what he did not expect was that in 1998, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait had already realized the three links.
In the past, hijackers such as Huang Shugang did not become heroes as in the past, but were controlled by the Taiwan side and first accepted the local judicial trial.
Therefore, after Yuan Bin and his wife arrived in Taiwan, they found that what was waiting for them was not flowers and applause, but cold handcuffs.
After communicating with the Civil Aviation Administration of the mainland, the Taiwan side reached an agreement, and the Taiwan side sent a pilot to fly the passenger plane back to the mainland with the co-pilot Wen Fei, and the plane then refueled in Xiamen and went from Kunming to Yangon according to the original plan.
The mainland also agreed to the principle of separating man from machine, leaving the hijackers Yuan Bin and his wife in Taiwan to be tried by local justice. Subsequently, the two were detained in Taiwan's Taoyuan Detention Center and Longtan Women's Prison, respectively.
At first, Yuan Bin was very satisfied with this, thinking that after serving his sentence, he would be able to stay in Taiwan to work and live. Unexpectedly, in 2001, after three years of negotiations, Yuan Bin and other hijackers were repatriated to the mainland. Instead of living the life he imagined, he will return to the mainland to face a new trial.