07.01.1981 Boeing 747 CAAC wylądował na międzynarodowym lotnisku JFK.
Oznaczało to pierwszy od 1949 roku lot z Chin kontynentalnych do Stanów Zjednoczonych.
SCHEDULED AIR SERVICE FROM CHINA TO U.S. RESUMES
By Wallace Turner Jan. 8, 1981
Scheduled passenger airline service between China and the United States was restored today after a 32-year hiatus when a Boeing 747 with 139 Chinese passengers arrived exactly on time at San Francisco International Airport.
Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Consul General Hu Ding-yi held a ribboncutting ceremony, which included a cake, decorated with ''CAAC Welcome to San Francisco,'' and two bottles of champagne. Meanwhile, the passengers on the flight, which arrived at 10 A.M., were steered around the welcoming committee directly to the customs and immigration clearance areas. Mayor Feinstein described the landing as ''an historic and exciting occasion.'' Consul General Hu said he was ''delighted and excited'' and predicted more travel between China and the United States.
New York Is Next Stop
Two hours later the plane, with 85 passengers and a crew of 23, left for Kennedy International Airport in New York, where it landed at 7:55 P.M. The 747, one of three purchased last fall by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the country's official airline, is scheduled to leave at 10 A.M. tomorrow for San Francisco, Shanghai and Peking.
On April 4 the Chinese airline will add another flight, which will stop here, and on April 6 will add a flight that skips Shanghai, stops in Tokyo and continues nonstop to New York.
In the meantime, Pan American World Airways, selected by the United States Government to operate the American flights that are authorized under the agreement on aviation rights, will begin flights to China Jan. 28. The first Pan Am flights will go from New York to Tokyo and Peking. On Jan. 31 Pan Am will begin a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, Shanghai and Peking, and on April 26 will add a final flight, which will also originate here.
The first scheduled flights from the United States to China were begun in 1935 by Pan American. The service ended when the Communists took control of the Chinese government in 1949.
Pan Am provided dockage and ground services for today's flight from China, and will be provided reciprocal services on its own flights to China, a spokesman for the American airline said.
Until today there had been no scheduled air service originating from China. But since the reopening of relations between the United States and China began in 1972 the Chinese government has been improving its air services. In 1973-4 the Chinese were delivered 10 Boeing 707's and has used them on routes in Asia and to Europe.
Last fall, Boeing Airplane Company, based in Seattle, sold China three long-range 747 aircraft, each with 331 seats and a range of 5,900 statute miles. Today's flight was the first of those planes to come nonstop from Shanghai.
The resumption of scheduled air service was an addition to the growing traffic between West Coast cities and China, which began two years ago with the arrival of a Chinese cargo ship, the first in 30 years, at Seattle to take on a cargo of grain.
The financial details of Boeing's transactions with China have not been released. But the planes are known to cost $49 million to $58 million each.
San Francisco-based employees of the Chinese airline said that all the passengers on today's flight paid. They also showed a fare schedule of $1,250 for first-class travel to San Francisco from Peking, $820 for business class and $625 for coach class. ---- Chinese Pact With Hotel Company
Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, has negotiated a draft contract with the Peking city government concerning a combination hotel, office building and apartment complex that is to be built in the capital, an Intercontinental spokesman said here yesterday.
The spokesman said the contract is now ''awaiting the approval of higher Chinese authorities,'' but she declined to say what Intercontinental's precise role would be in the complex.
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7 January 1981. A Boeing 747 of CAAC lands at JFK International Airport, marking the first time since 1949 that a flight from mainland China to the United States was conducted.
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7 January 2012. Cameron A-210 hot air balloon 'Mr Big' ZK-XXF collided with a high voltage power line while attempting to land, causing it to catch fire, disintegrate and crash just north of Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 on board.
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