A Chinese Communist air force squadron leader, Fan Yuan-yen, piloting a MIG 19 fighter on a patrol mission, made a flight to freedom from Chinchiang, Fukien, to a Tainan airbase in southern Taiwan on July 7.
中共空軍中隊長范園焱，七月七日駕駛米格十九飛機，於福建晉江起飛執行勤務時，乘隙投奔自由，飛抵我台南某空軍基地，消息傳出，國內、國外都受到無比震撼。