Black Boxes Do Not Suggest Human Error In CAL Crash

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, June 25, 2002

Black Boxes Do Not Suggest Human Error In CAL Crash

Investigators have ruled out human error, at least for the moment, as the cause of the May 25 crash of Taiwan's China Airlines flight CI-611, according to news from Taipei Tuesday.

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Investigators have ruled out human error, at least for the moment, as the cause of the May 25 crash of Taiwan's China Airlines flight CI-611, according to news from Taipei Tuesday.

They said that analysis of the jet's two black boxes showed no signs of flight operation errors.

They also said that no evidence of a mid-air collision has beenfound judging from the retrieved wreckage and the bodies that havebeen recovered.

The Hong Kong-bound Boeing 747-200 plane broke apart in mid-airand plunged into the sea off Penghu County some 30 minutes after taking off from the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, killing all 225 people aboard.

As of May 23, 160 bodies had been recovered.

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