Miss Macao

When

16 Jul 1948

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

22.18° N, 113.74° E

Description

aircraft hijacking

Deaths

25

Hong Kong commercial seaplane; hijacked by pirates in 1948

Miss Macao (Chinese: 澳門小姐; Sidney Lau: O3 Moon4 Siu2 Je2) was a Catalina seaplane owned by Cathay Pacific and operated by subsidiary Macau Air Transport Company. On 16 July 1948 it was involved in the first hijacking of a commercial aircraft. Piracy for robbery and ransom was the motive.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Quatre hommes armés détournent l'avion civil Miss Macao de Cathay Pacific et tirent sur le pilote ; l'avion s'écrase, tuant 26 des 27 personnes à bord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page