What the records say
- When
- 22 Aug 1999
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 22.31° N, 113.92° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 3
- Injured
- 208
China Airlines Flight 642
August 1999 plane crash in Hong Kong
China Airlines Flight 642 was a scheduled flight that crashed at Hong Kong International Airport on 22 August 1999. It was operating from Bangkok to Taipei with a stopover in Hong Kong.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “China Airlines Flight 642 crashed at Hong Kong International Airport resulting in 3 fatalities and over 200 people getting injured”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “самолёт McDonnell Douglas MD-11 авиакомпании China Airlines, рейс 642 совершал посадку в Гонконге во время тайфуна”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “赤鱲角香港國際機場發生自新機場啟用以來首宗空難,中華航空642號班機因風切變翻轉,造成3死210人傷。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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