Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103
The aircraft involved in the accident, while still in service with United Airlines, in 1974 | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 22 August 1981 |
| Summary | Metal fatigue cracking and severe corrosion, leading to explosive decompression and in-flight break-up |
| Site | Near Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-222 |
| Operator | Far Eastern Air Transport |
| IATA flight No. | FE103 |
| ICAO flight No. | FEA103 |
| Call sign | FAR EASTERN 103 |
| Registration | B-2603 |
| Flight origin | Taipei Songshan Airport |
| Destination | Kaohsiung International Airport |
| Occupants | 110 |
| Passengers | 102 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 110 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 was a flight from Taiwan Taipei Songshan Airport to Kaohsiung International Airport that crashed on 22 August 1981, killing all 110 people on board. The Boeing 737-222 aircraft disintegrated in midair and crashed in the township of Sanyi, Miaoli. It is also called the Sanyi Air Disaster. The crash is the third-deadliest aviation accident on the Taiwanese soil, behind China Airlines Flight 676 and China Airlines Flight 611.