Reason for Taiwan Plane Crash Not Determined

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Reason for Taiwan Plane Crash Not Determined

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An official in charge of Taiwan's aviation safety stressed Sunday that no possibilities could be ruled out in the plane crash which occurred Saturday afternoon shortly after the plane destined for Hong Kong took off from Taipei.

The official said the searching staff for the plane's flight data and voice recorders, or black boxes, are targeting the sphere where the recorders might stay according to the wind direction and speed when the tragedy happened, according to reports reaching here from Taipei.

The black boxes must have dropped to the seabed as a black box weighs at least seven to eight kilograms therefore impossible to float, said Kay Yong, the official.

The China Airlines Boeing 747-200 crashed over the sea near Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew members aboard, all feared to have died.

A senior executive from the airlines said it was urgent to find the black boxes as there is a time limit for its signal transmitting power and the moving current might make the detecting work more difficult.

The plane went disintegrated mid-air, according to Taiwan's TVBS news Sunday.

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