China Airlines’ Flight 611 plummets into the Taiwan Strait – resulting in 225 fatalities. The crash is later attributed to metal fatigue and cracks throughout the Boeing 747. June 1 ...

Buddhist followers pray beside the dead body of a passenger of China Airlines flight CI 611 at the airforce base in Penghu, yesterday. The Boeing 747 crashed off Penghu Island with 225 people aboard.

Boeing, which delivered the 747-200 to China Airlines in 1979, sent two investigators to help Taiwan aviation authorities with the crash investigation. More could be sent later once additional ...

A crash-landing by a Boeing 747 at Taipei in 1991 killed five. In the 1980s, four other China Airlines disasters cost 72 lives. This appalling record triggered immediate denunciations by the ...

China Airlines' fourth fatal crash since 1994 ... The probable cause of that Boeing 747-100's crash was a fuel tank explosion, investigators said. But NTSB investigator Greg Philips, who ...

The China Airlines jet that crashed Saturday with 225 people aboard ... Military radar provided a clear picture of the Boeing 747-200 splitting into four pieces, said Kay Yong, managing director ...

The Hong Kong-bound China Airlines jet that crashed into the sea yesterday broke ... Military radar provided a clear picture of the Boeing 747-200, with 225 people on board, splitting up into ...

Fatigue cracks in a Chinese Boeing 747 that were never ... 747 broke apart in mid-air, shortly after takeoff and plunged into the sea near Taiwan's Penghu Islands. The crash was the Taiwan ...

Bad weather and possible ‘crew error’ appeared to be an early focus of an inquiry into what caused a Boeing 747 freighter ... as myCargo Airlines. The plane that crashed was manufactured ...

China Airlines (CAL) took the Taiwan Air Safety Council (ASC) to task for its "incomplete" report on the May 25, 2002, crash of a Boeing 747-200 (DAILY, June 4), which said that patched-over ...