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Chinese jet crashes into village, 205 dead
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A China Airlines jet trying
to land in fog crashed into a country neighborhood
Monday, ripping the roofs off houses before skidding
into a rice paddy and erupting in flames. Authorities
said all 196 aboard and nine people on the ground
were killed.
Firefighters went house to house in the blackened
neighborhood, putting out the flames licking doors
and windows and searching for survivors. Search
lights illuminated a life raft from the Airbus A-300,
wrapped around a broken tree stump. Seats from the
plane were scattered in the dirt, one with a body
trapped beneath it.
China Airlines said the dead included the gover
nor of Taiwan’s Central Bank and other key financial
officials; four Americans; and many Taiwanese fami
lies returning from vacations in Bali. Victims on the
ground included a 2-month-old baby.
Witnesses said the plane hit several hundreds yards
short of the runway at Chiang Kai-shek airport, 25 miles
west of Taipei. It tore through homes along a highway
before coming to rest in flames in the rice paddy.
“It came down — I heard a loud explosion and a
fireball. And then I thought the chances for any sur
vivors were slim,” said a vendor in the area, who iden
tified himself only as Mr. Yang.
The fiery impact scattered charred bodies and
body parts throughout the area. Authorities sealed off
the neighborhood, leaving families of passengers to
congregate at hospitals and the airport. Relatives
broke into tears and fell into one another’s arms as the
extent of the disaster hit them; one woman collapsed
to the floor.
“They all went to Bali on a trip — and they are all
dead,” said one woman, whose four children were
on the flight.
Rescue workers on the scene said they had given
up looking for survivors, but the deputy director-gen
eral of Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration,
Chang Kuo-cheng, said he still hoped to find survivors
among the 182 passengers and 14 crew members.
Airport officials said two flight data recorders were
recovered and were being analyzed to help determine
the cause of the crash.
The twin-engine Airbus went down while at
tempting to land on a second approach at 8:09 p.m.
local time at the airport’s northern runway, the Taipei-
based China Airlines reported.
Heavy fog was reported around the airport
throughout the afternoon and evening, and a light
rain was falling at the time of the crash.
The plane had been asked to make the second ap
proach due to poor visibility, said Hamilton Liu, a Chi
na Airlines spokesperson. Earlier, the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration had said the visibility was
reported to be adequate.
Tsai Tuei, director of the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration, resigned to take moral responsibility for the
crash, which was the worst in the airport’s history. It
came after Taiwan’s flagship carrier embarked on an
extensive safety campaign that followed a crash in
Japan in 1994 that claimed 264 lives.
Among the passengers on flight CI-676 were Sheu
Yuan-dong, governor of Taiwan’s Central Bank, his
wife, and four other finance officials returning from
a conference in Bali. They included Chen Huang,
head of the bank’s Department of Foreign Exchange,
and Chien Chi-min, head of the Department of Eco
nomic Research.
East China Sea
Plane crash,
197 passengers,
no survivors found
TAIWAN
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