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Old 25th Aug 2008, 16:29
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GOOGLE TRANSLATION of the Apple Daily Story follows:

Taipei: China Airlines CI-160 flights landed last Friday in South Korea Incheon International Airport, reported the fuselage with the tire was cut loss, China Airlines may be a preliminary analysis of the runway Zhaohuo invasion of foreign bodies, but recent data collected in South Korea , Is very likely that China Airlines pilots in landing runway lights hit trouble brewing. The Executive Yuan will have to fly the incident upgraded to flight safety incident, South Korean aviation and railways will be incident-led commission of inquiry into the investigation, flight safety will be sent to help.


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A China Airlines A340-300 aircraft arrived last Friday from South Korea Incheon International Airport in Taoyuan, the maintenance staff left posterior routine inspection found that the aircraft fuselage with 15 cm-long crack, and two other suspects were also cut tire damage.
- Security Council chief executive Yang Hongzhi, yesterday sent to Incheon International Airport to understand, according to South Korea on data collected in the past two days found that a China Airlines plane may have landed in rainy weather last Friday when hitting the runway lights, tyres and the machine Who cut losses. This incident has not grasp the 80% foreign body invasion of the runway, flight data recorders after the completion of interpretation to complete the confirmation.
- Security Council officials have privately said that China Airlines and the Civil Aviation Authority and the first time that the actual occurrence of a significant gap, hit the runway to runway lights Lai invasion of a foreign body扯.
Who declined to be named flight safety experts, including facilities on the runway of the runway lights are fragile items, the aircraft hit the cut should not damage skin, may be judged the base of the runway lights were run over by aircraft Feiqi piercing machine Body skin, because the aircraft has landed on the runway, the flight will not cause too great harm, to envisage the most dangerous consequences, is so out of the runway the aircraft ran out of control.
China Airlines Public Relations Department Director Chen Pengyu said that this accident is still under investigation in the cause of the accident, the company had not heard aircraft hit the runway lights argument.



China Airlines CI-160 flights last Friday landed at Incheon, South Korea, Chuan-fuselage (right) with the tire (left) was cut losses, initially investigated the incident suspected the pilots hit the runway when landing lights brewing trouble.
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