Taiwan Requests Data From US, Mainland for CAL Crash Probe

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Taiwan Requests Data From US, Mainland for CAL Crash Probe

Taiwan hopes to get radar and satellite data from the United States and the Chinese mainland to help its on-going investigation of last Saturday's China Airlines crash.

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Taiwan hopes to get radar and satellite data from the United States and the Chinese mainland to help its on-going investigation of last Saturday's China Airlines crash.

It was reported that with only radar data from a plane above 30,000 feet in air and just 0.1 percent of the wreckage retrieved, it has been very difficult to piece together the cause of the crash.

The information recorded near sea-level is needed to better track the fall of the debris and locate the wreckage.

The Hong Kong-bound CAL flight CI-611 is believed to have broken up in mid-air and plunged into the Taiwan Straits, killing 225 people on board.

So far, ninety bodies have been recovered.

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