"Yesterday, the fast response of local people and officials made all the difference. -- CNN Seoul Bureau Chief Sohn Jie-Ae and CNN producer Lisa Rose Weaver contributed to this report.External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. Investigators also plan to interview a Chinese pilot, identified by Korean television as Wu Xin Lu, one of 38 survivors. Survivors reported no explosion before the crash. "When I looked back there was fire," said one man who escaped from the plane. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. The Air China flight, from Beijing, slammed into a mountain on Monday, while preparing to land at an airport outside Busan, South Korea's second largest city, killing 126 people. Amazingly, most of the survivors were located in a single section of the plane. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):(SVG file, nominally 595 × 842 pixels, file size: 44 KB)Commons is a freely licensed media file repository.
The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
English: Seat plan of Air China flight 129 showing sitting positions of passengers and crew and which seats held survivors and non-survivors (English). The plane crashed near apartment buildings, but there were no reports of casualties on the ground. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Air China Flight 129. The Boeing 767 was on a nonstop flight from Beijing, when it crashed in heavy fog and rain. Another person who initially survived the crash died in hospital overnight. From his hospital bed, one survivor said that he lost consciousness when the plane crashed. By Tuesday morning, rescuers were still searching for nine people; another 119 were confirmed dead. The dead included both pilots of the Air India Express flight, the airline said in a statement, adding that the four cabin crew were safe. Rescue workers pulled some of the passengers off the plane shortly after the crash. Air Disasters > It's April 15, 2002 and Air China Flight 129 has just crashed into Mount Dotdae, in South Korea, killing 129 of the 166 people on board. It was also the worst plane crash in South Korea. Many international and domestic flights had been turned back or diverted due to deteriorating weather before the crash. There was some kind of hole in the ceiling so I just came out of that hole." References Edit. Airline officials said they could not confirm these numbers.
Rescuers find 39 survivors in wreckage of Air China Boeing 767-200 jetliner, which crashed into hillside during landing approach to airport in … The airline, which has a fleet of 69 planes operating 114 routes, is the largest air carrier in China in terms of traffic volume and company assets, according to Air China's Web site. The decision to carry out tests of survivors was taken by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who visited the Kozhikode medical college where the injured passengers of Air India flight IX 1344 were being treated. It is the first time on the mainland that a pilot has been convicted of causing a major air accident, the China News Service said.
On April 15, 2002, the Boeing 767-2J6ER flying the route crashed into a mountain while trying to land at Busan-Gimhae International Airport. The crash is the first on record to cause fatalities in the state-owned flagship carrier's 47-year history. "I don't know whether it was an accident or not. Poor weather -- including rain, fog and strong winds -- was believed to be among the factors in the accident, but it was too early to identify the exact cause, authorities said. Air China flight 129 is an international scheduled flight from Beijing to Pusan. Investigators are ready to begin examining the flight data recorders recovered from Air China Flight 129, a day after it crashed into a mountain near the southern port city of Busan. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. "When I came to, I saw fire at the tail. China Airlines Flight 120 was a regularly scheduled flight from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City), Taiwan to Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.On August 20, 2007, the Boeing 737-800 aircraft operating the flight caught fire and exploded after landing and taxiing to the gate area at Naha Airport. There was a little hole on the left side so I slid through there," he said. A number of other international flights were turned back from the airport Monday morning because of poor visibility caused by the weather. China's official news agency, Xinhua, said 135 of the passengers were Korean, 19 were Chinese and one was Uzbek. Several survivors described how they fled to safety. 129: Injuries: 37: Survivors: 37: Seat map.
The deadliest aviation disaster which had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan on 16 August 1987, killing 154 out of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. Television footage showed the plane broken in half and in flames.