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ABC News Online
Posted: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:43 AEST
More than 100 dead in Chinese plane crash
Officials in South Korea now say 54 people have survived the crash of an Air China jet carrying 166 people, near the city of Pusan
Boeing and Air China crash investigators are on their way to the area in a bid to determine what caused the Boeing 767-200 to crash.
This Pusan crash is Air China's first in its 47-year history.
Local authorities in South Korea say poor weather had caused the closure of the airport before the Air China flight had arrived.
Its crash into a hill near the Pusan airport has left at least 100 dead, but miraculously rescue workers say they have pulled dozens of survivors from the wreckage.
A spokesman with Boeing in the Chinese capital, Beijing says there is still no word from those on the ground in Pusan about what may have caused the crash.
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This is a cut and paste from the current CNN news story...
South Korean transportation ministry officials told YTN the plane, owned by China's largest airline, crashed while trying to land after air traffic controllers told it to take a detour due to bad weather.
Chinese state television said the plane had been redirected to Seoul because of the fog.
And this from farther down in the same story...
All 39 flights scheduled for Monday from Seoul to Busan and other southern cities were canceled due to bad weather, aviation officials told AP.
Then this from the above ABC story...
Local authorities in South Korea say poor weather had caused the closure of the airport before the Air China flight had arrived.
What's up with this?
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Last edited by Flight Safety; 15th Apr 2002 at 10:14.