China Airlines Flight 611

When

25 May 2002

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

23.99° N, 119.68° E

Description

2002 aviation accident in Taiwan

Deaths

225

Injured

0

Cause

In-flight breakup

2002 aviation accident in the Taiwan Strait

China Airlines Flight 611 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight operated by a Boeing 747-200 from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan to Hong Kong International Airport. On May 25th, 2002, the flight disintegrated midair and crashed into the Taiwan Strait, 26 miles northeast of the Penghu Islands, 20 minutes after takeoff, killing all 225 people on board.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “China Airlines Flight 611 crashed into the Taiwan Strait, killing everybody on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Boeing 747 над Тайваньским проливом: Boeing 747-209B авиакомпании China Airlines упал в Тайваньский пролив”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en las islas Penghu (Taiwán), el vuelo 611 de China Airlines se estrella a los pocos minutos después de haber despegado del aeropuerto internacional de Taoyuan…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “中華航空611號班機在澎湖外海解體，機上225人全部罹難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “台湾チャイナエアライン611便が澎湖諸島上空で空中分解し海上に墜落、乗員乗客225名全員が死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page