發信人: sparkie19us@yahoo.com (sparkie) 日期: Thu, 09 May 2002 18:53:01 GMT 標題: Re: Help Needed! 1st time visiting Beijing! 信群: alt.chinese.computing,soc.culture.china,alt.chinese.text,alt.chinese.text.big5 看板: 來源: <3CDAC681.106E6813@yahoo.com>:3511, 24.128.164.132 組織: yahoo.com I would worry about this instead. 2 crashes? MD82 and 767?.... Chinese divers search for crashed jetliner's flight recorders By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press, 5/9/2002 10:04 DALIAN, China (AP) Divers searched debris-filled waters Thursday for flight recorders that officials hope will explain the crash of a Chinese jetliner that plunged into the sea off China's northeast coast with 112 people aboard. Officials said they hadn't ruled out any possible cause of the crash of the China Northern Airlines jet Tuesday night. The flight from Beijing crashed just short of its destination in Dalian after the pilot reported a fire. ''We have never had an accident like this where the plane crashed into the sea, so we lack experience. But we are doing our very best,'' aviation official Yang Yuanyuan said at a news conference. Searchers have found 66 bodies but identified only five, the officials said. They said most bodies were in pieces and so badly damaged that even the sex of seven victims couldn't be determined. Officials said they had detected homing signals emitted by the two ''black box'' recorders one for voices in the cockpit, the other for instrument readings aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-82, and 50 divers were trying to find them. ''There have as yet been no breakthroughs,'' said Shan Chunchang, deputy director of the national State Administration of Work Safety Supervision. Shan and Yang are among investigators sent from Beijing by China's cabinet to oversee the crash probe, underscoring the emphasis the central government has placed on airline safety. Yang is deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Trying to deflect criticism of the crew, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that pilot Wang Yongxiang and his co-pilot were experienced and had ''good piloting skills.'' Wang, born in 1967, had flown 11,000 hours, while his co-pilot whose name wasn't given had flown 3,300 hours, Xinhua said. It said both had medical checkups this week and were in good health. China Northern has declined to comment, citing orders from government investigators. Pilot error has been cited by investigators as a possible cause of the April 15 crash of an Air China jetliner near Busan, South Korea. The two Chinese crashes came despite extensive efforts to improve China's air safety after a string of fatal accidents in the 1990s. Investigators in Dalian are to perform chemical tests on the bodies and wreckage, Shan said. He said they will try to reconstruct the aircraft from pieces of wreckage brought out of the bay. ''We can't rule out any possibilities,'' he said. Chinese reporters have been allowed onto the pier where searchers are bringing bodies and wreckage, but foreign journalists are barred. A local fisherman, Xu Haibin, said he had seen divers jumping into the bay from a barge and a Chinese naval boat. Xu said a barge with a crane aboard was floating nearby. Most of the passengers on the China Northern flight were Chinese and lived in Dalian, according to the airline. Eight were foreigners three Japanese and one each from Singapore, India, France, Hong Kong and South Korea. Boeing Co., which acquired the MD-82 series in its 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas, said the plane that crashed was delivered in July 1991 and had flown for 26,000 hours. China Northern's only other known fatal accident also involved an MD-82. That plane crashed in 1993 while landing in heavy fog in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi. Twelve people were reported killed. CC Tang wrote: > sincere_one2001ca@yahoo.com (Gadfly) wrote in message news:<64d469c4.0205082245.48b4f001@posting.google.com>... > > I will tell you what a shame is... > > > > ...Your simplistic response by calling me a liar is a shame... > > Uh, where as your "advice" that the Communist despots will take a huge > cut on your money when using ATMs is a beacon of integrity. Your > momma must be so proud. > > > > Gadfly wrote in message > > > news:64d469c4.0205062210.11ce5356@posting.google.com... > > > > My advice: Go to China at your own risk. The Communist despots will > > > > take a huge cut on your money when you try to withdraw from their > > > > "ATM" machines. > > > > > > > > ckkwan@my-deja.com (Kwan) wrote in message > > news:... > > > > > Hi, I will be visiting Beijing next week for the first time. > > > > > > > > > > Just would like to know if there is any Bank of China ATM machine in > > > > > Beijing international airport? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks and regards > > > > > Kwan. > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net > > > Complaints to news@netfront.net .