CAAC Flight 301,[1] a Hawker Siddeley Trident operated by CAAC Guangzhou Regional Administration (now China Southern Airlines) from Guangzhou Baiyun to Hong Kong Kai Tak, ran off the runway in Hong Kong on 31 August 1988 after clipping approach lights.

[2] The aircraft involved was a British-built Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E, powered by three Rolls-Royce Spey 512-5W, The first flight was in 1973.

[1] While on final approach to Kai Tak Airport, in rain with 450 metres (1,480 ft) visibility, the right wing of the Hawker Siddeley Trident operating the flight clipped approach lights of Runway 31 and the main landing gear tyres hit the runway promontory, causing the right main landing gear to be ripped from the wing.

The nose and left main landing gear then collapsed and the aircraft slid over the parallel taxiway and into Kowloon Bay.

Of the dead, six were crew members and one was a Hong Kong passenger who succumbed to his injuries in a hospital.

The final deviation below the normal approach path was probably due to a sudden reduction and distortion of the visual reference caused by heavy rain."