Crashed China Airlines Plane Over 22 Years Old

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Crashed China Airlines Plane Over 22 Years Old

The China Airlines passenger plane that crashed off the island county of Penghu Saturday was 22 years and eight months old, according to a senior Taiwanese transportation and communications official.

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The China Airlines passenger plane that crashed off the island county of Penghu Saturday was 22 years and eight months old, according to a senior Taiwanese transportation and communications official.

Chang Chia-juch was quoted by local media as saying that the Boeing 747-200 had logged a total flying time of 64,800 hours and had no record of malfunctions.

Flight CI-611 went missing some 10 nautical miles north of Penghu Island in the Taiwan Strait at a height of 35,000 feet, with 206 passengers and 19 crew on board.

The plane took off from Taiwan's international airport at 3:08 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong at 4:28 p.m., but disappeared from radar screens at 3:38 p.m., the official said.

Meanwhile, one male body has been found in the sea by rescuers near the site where the plane disappeared.

China Airlines has reportedly set up an emergency center and reception desk at the transit hotel at the airport for the families of passengers aboard the passenger jet.

The manifest of the flight CI611 lists two Singaporeans, 14 from Hong Kong, Macao and China's mainland and one European, according to the airlines.

Source: Xinhua

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