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BaDaXianRen
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Joined: July 11, 2004
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Nov 21, 2004 - 12:47 PM |
 
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November 20, 2004
Plane Crashes in China With 47 Aboard
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:19 p.m. ET
BEIJING (AP) -- A passenger plane carrying 53 people crashed Sunday in northern China, and the government said there were no survivors.
The plane crashed in Baotou, a city in the Inner Mongolia region, shortly after takeoff around 8:20 a.m. (0020 GMT), the official Xinhua News Agency said.
It was carrying 47 passengers plus six crew members and was headed to Shanghai, the agency said.
All were confirmed dead by government officials in Baotou, it said.
The plane crashed into a frozen lake in Nanhai Park ``only about a dozen seconds'' after it took off, Xinhua said.
Police and firefighters were breaking the ice on the lake to search for victims, it added.
``Witnesses said that the plane broke into flaming fragments,'' the report said, adding that a house next to the park was damaged and several yachts were scorched.
There was no immediate word on the cause.
A propaganda department official in Baotou told reporters there that everyone aboard was killed, Xinhua said.
The plane was a China Eastern Airlines CRJ-200 aircraft, it said.
A worker in the ticket office at Baotou Airport said the crash site is just outside the airport, in a park that surrounds a tributary of the Yellow River.
The area is about 540 kilometers (330 miles) northwest of Beijing. |
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Bullitt
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Joined: May 04, 2004
Posts: 642
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Nov 21, 2004 - 05:20 PM |
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I was just about to post this.... |
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serend
FooJay
Joined: Aug 31, 2004
Posts: 1712
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Nov 23, 2004 - 10:19 AM |
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A few weeks ago in Xiamen, I almost boarded a small plane similar to the one that fell out of the sky this time... missed opportunity, fukuman and snowbytes.... |
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Edgewood
FooSlinger
Joined: Jan 28, 2004
Posts: 3906
Location: Colonial Shanghai
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Nov 23, 2004 - 01:45 PM |
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That's ok, serend. I've got a few extra SA-7's in the closet. |
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enzo
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Joined: Feb 19, 2004
Posts: 33
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Nov 24, 2004 - 05:34 PM |
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Death toll up to 55.
They found both black boxes today. |
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