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I'm not sure how good this data is. I lifted it off nostalgia.com after a Google search.
Miss Macao was a Catalina seaplane, owned by Cathay Pacific and operated by a subsidiary. On 16 June 1948 she became the victim of the first hijacking of a commercial aircraft.
A few minutes after take off on a routine flight from Macau to Hong Kong, four men carrying guns attempted to take over the plane. One of them demanded that the co-pilot surrender the controls. The co-pilot refused and was shot.
The pilot, who had been up in the dome of the PBY, jumped down to see what was going on and was shot five times in the back with a machine gun. He then collapsed onto the flight controls. The plane went into an uncontrolled dive and crashed into the sea. 26 of the 27 people aboard died in the crash
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