Just a little note:
The plane (747-200D, B18255) is 22.8 years old and logged about 65000 (Edited: 64810) flight hours and 21000 (Edited: 21398) landings. It was to be flown to HK as it's last passenger flight for CI and back to Taipei at night, refurnished and sold to Orient Thai Airlines in June.
So The plane's last passenger flight for CI proved to be the last flight for the plane itself.
More: A check was done May 3rd, B check done April 4th, C check done November 25th 2001. Captain and Co-pilot both have about 10000 hrs and flight engineer have roughly 18000.
Edited again for spelling mistakes.
