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A structural failure that China Airlines had not repaired properly was the most probable cause of the midair disingration and crash into the sea of a 21-year-old China Airlines 747-200 that killed all 225 people on board in 2002, Taiwan investigators said.
The aircraft had a 180 cm crack on the back half of its fuselage, caused when its tail hit a runway in 1980, and this led to structural failure.
The safety agency checked 1,500 pieces of wreckage 75% of the...
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