Poor Weather Delays Search for CAL Black Boxes

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Poor Weather Delays Search for CAL Black Boxes

Poor weather in the Taiwan Straithas prevented the retrieval of the two flight data recorders of the China Airlines passenger jet which crashed Saturday, accordingto news from Taiwan Thursday.

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Poor weather in the Taiwan Straithas prevented the retrieval of the two flight data recorders of the China Airlines passenger jet which crashed Saturday, accordingto news from Taiwan Thursday.

It was reported that strong winds and high waves were preventing the search mission from continuing its work off Mutou Islet on the Penghu archipelago.

Although the black boxes had been located some 20 nautical miles north of Mutou Islet, the bad weather prevented divers fromtaking photos 60 or 70 meters beneath the surface to ascertain theprecise location.

It is hard to salvage even a 40-meter-long piece of wreckage found in the same area.

It was also reported that the badly decomposed body of the 95thcrash victim was found by a mainland fishing boat.

The CAL Boeing 747-200 plane broke apart in mid-air off Penghu Saturday en route to Hong Kong, 30 minutes after taking off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. All 225 passengers and crew aboard were killed.

The cause of the accident, the latest in a string of CAL plane crashes in recent years, remains unknown.

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