On this day, June 16, in 1948 , four men stormed the Miss Macao, an American-owned seaplane headed from Macau to Hong Kong, marking the first hijacking of a commercial plane.
The pilot, Dale Warren Cramer, refused to surrender the controls, and the co-pilot attacked one of the intruders. Cramer was shot dead, and collapsed onto the controls. The plane went into a dive and crashed in the Pearl River Delta.
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