Hong Kong bound plane is missing.
 

Taiwan Plane Missing En Route to Hong Kong- TV
Sat May 25, 4:47 AM ET

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A China Airlines plane went missing on Saturday en route from Taiwan to Hong Kong, Taiwan cable news networks reported.

The plane was carrying more than 200 passengers and 19 crew members on the one-and-a-half-hour flight, the networks said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...dc_1&printer=1

fading out... slowly falling to sleep....

:eek7

Seems at least 1-2 planes crash every month.
Maybe its just me but several years ago I remember hearing about plane crashes every couple months but now it seems they crash more often.
Maybe the increase is due to increased number of flights per year - dunno.

Don't a lot of Taiwan Air planes go down or is it my imagination? Or is it they go to near China?

joho

I noticed that crashes are seen more and more often maybe its just perception, im sure none of us will remember this flight in a month.

More flights = More crashes.
More you drive = More chance you crashe

well,
china airlines are well known for the poor maintanance of their planes but in this area most crashes happen because of storms that are frequent around taiwan and hongkong

- A Boeing 747 of Taiwan's China Airlines carrying 225 people crashed into the sea off Taiwan during a flight to Hong Kong, officials said.

One body and the wreckage had been found, TVBS television reported.

:(

China airlines owned the plane and are notorious for bad maintenance and pilots. A huge chunk of their pilots are ex China airforce and have little commercial training and often little commercial experience too. It seems many of them get rather too close to the mountains splattered over Taiwan and this wouldn't be the 1st to hit them. Fuck - I've flown several times on that route with China airlines, hopefully never again!

Yeah, China Air sucks. Stay away.