Airline officials said the plane involved in Saturday’s crash was the oldest in its fleet of 29 jumbo jets and the only remaining 747-200 still operated by China Airlines. “This is the last ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...