More Than 100 Bodies Found in Air Crash: Taiwan Official

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More Than 100 Bodies Found in Air Crash: Taiwan Official

Taiwanese transportation authorities said that search vessels had found more than 100 bodies in the sea around 25 nautical miles north of Penghu where aChina Airlines jetliner crashed Saturday.

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Taiwanese transportation authorities said that search vessels had found more than 100 bodies in the sea around 25 nautical miles north of Penghu where aChina Airlines jetliner crashed Saturday.

The Boeing 747-200 aircraft, carrying 206 passengers and 19 crew, left Taiwan's international airport at 3:03 pm and was scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong at 4:28 pm, but disappeared from radar screens at 3:33 pm when it was 10 nautical miles north of Penghu.

Chang Chia-juch, a Taiwan transportation official, was quoted by local media as saying that no survivors had been found thus far.

Chang said that two Cathay Pacific aircraft flying over the area had reported picking up signals from the China Airlines plane's automatic emergency location indicator, which showed that the aircraft had crashed.

Two Singaporeans, 14 people from Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland, and one European were among the passengers. The rest were Taiwanese, according to China Airlines officials.

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