On the evening of July 2, police in Changchun, Jilin Province reported a criminal case:
*Li, an employee of China Southern Airlines’ Jilin branch, stabbed two colleagues following a workplace dispute and then died by jumping from a building.
*Both victims were hospitalized and are not in life-threatening condition.
The case is currently under further investigation.
Looking back, similar violent incidents have occurred within the civil aviation sector in China and abroad.
In March 2021, a Donghai Airlines flight from Shenzhen witnessed a physical altercation between the captain and a flight attendant mid-air.
Even more shocking was the 1987 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 tragedy. A former USAir employee, fired over theft and denied reinstatement, smuggled a gun onboard, fatally shot his former supervisor and the pilots during the flight, and caused the plane to crash, killing everyone on board.
