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China Airlines Flight 676
CG render of A300-600R, B-1814Accident summary Date February 16, 1998 Type Crash on approach due to bad weather and pilot error Site Taoyuan County, Taiwan Passengers 182 Crew 14 Injuries 0 Fatalities 202 (incl. 6 on ground) Survivors 0 Aircraft type Airbus A300-600R Operator China Airlines Tail number B-1814 Flight origin Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, Indonesia Destination Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan China Airlines Flight 676 (CAL676, CI676) crashed into a road and residential area near Taoyuan County's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taiwan on the night of February 16, 1998.
The Airbus A300-622R jet, registered B-1814, was en route from Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali, Indonesia to Taipei. The weather was inclement with rain and fog when the aircraft approached Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, so the pilot executed a missed approach. After the jet was cleared to land at runway 05L, the autopilot was disengaged, and the pilots then attempted a manual go-around. The jet slowed down, pitched up by 40 degrees, rose 1,000 feet (300 m), stalled, and crashed into a residential neighborhood, bursting into flames. All 196 people on board were killed (including the president of Taiwan's central bank, Sheu Yuan-dong, his wife, Huang Mian-mei, and three central bank officials[1]), along with six people on the ground. Hsu Lu, the manager of the Voice of Taipei radio station, said that one boy was pulled alive from the wreckage and later died.[1]
The flight route designator for this route has since been changed to flight 772.
Contents
Passengers
Of the passengers:[1]
- 175 were from Taiwan
- 5 were American
- 1 was French
- 1 was Indonesian
See also
- China Airlines
- List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
References
- Ladkin, Peter M.. The Crash of Flight CI676. 18 March 1998. The RVS Group. RVS-J-98-01. http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Reports/taipei/taipei.html. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- CBC governor killed in plane crash
External links
External images Photos of B-1814 at Airliners.net Picture of the crash - "Mourners gather to identify victims of Taiwan crash," CNN
- "205 dead as China Air jet slams into Taiwan," CNN
- The Crash of Flight CI676, a China Airlines Airbus A300, Taipei, Taiwan, Monday 16 February, 1998: What We Know So Far - University of Bielefeld
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