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Fifty-three confirmed killed as plane crashes into park lake in north China
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/118220/1/.html ^
Posted on 11/20/2004 8:28:29 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
BEIJING : Fifty-three people were confirmed dead Sunday after a passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off in northern China, officials and state media said.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airplane; china; planecrash
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Private plane - rich Chinese.
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posted on
11/20/2004 8:29:51 PM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
11/20/2004 8:33:25 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Destro
That's the only ones the CCP cares about. A hundred or so peasants die and Xinhua downplays it as a minor incident.
I hung around on the CCP run sites before. It's amazing how repressive the gov't is over so many aspects of interaction.
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posted on
11/20/2004 8:35:17 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(Kerry surrendered Florida faster than he surrendered the Mekong Delta)
To: Bogey78O
There is a billion one million Chinese - like in India where hundreds die in spectacular rail and bus accidents - they tend to get numb at deaths in these numbers.
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posted on
11/20/2004 8:36:56 PM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
To: Bogey78O
Were there any former Clinton associates on board? /sarcasm
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
11/20/2004 8:37:11 PM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve to keep us free.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Prayers for the victims and their families -
To: Destro
+Nah, I'm talking like, "nah, only 2 or 3 people died" then it turns out to be 40 or 50.
Just like how AIDS outbreaks in some areas were swept under the rug to keep social order.
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posted on
11/20/2004 8:43:33 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(Kerry surrendered Florida faster than he surrendered the Mekong Delta)
To: Destro
To: Dr. Marten
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posted on
11/20/2004 10:27:37 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
(I am, thank God, a 2X-blessed hyphenated American: An AMERICAN-American - AND a Dollar-a-Day FReeper)
To: MediaMole
starting from a small city in northern china. poor abandoned once industrialized city.
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posted on
11/20/2004 11:48:51 PM PST
by
however1
To: Blurblogger
To: Velveeta; Revel
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posted on
11/20/2004 11:55:20 PM PST
by
nw_arizona_granny
(Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)
To: Brian Allen
"See what I mean?"
Nice example to bring your point home!
To: MediaMole
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posted on
11/21/2004 4:56:51 AM PST
by
Moose4
(I'm not white trash. I'm Caucasian recyclables.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; ...
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posted on
11/21/2004 4:58:37 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader." --George Pataki)
To: MediaMole
Probably well maintained. The CRJ-200 (really the CL65) is a fifty-seat pax aircraft (53 with crew - two pilots, one attendent) that originally was the Bombardier Challenger, a business jet. As a business jet, it may cycle a couple of times per week, as a regional it cycles four to five times per day. This puts it under an enormous amount of stress day-in and day-out. A key to whether maintenance is poor or not is whether the U.S. allows a nation to fly to our airports. The surveillance and scrutiny that the FAA puts foreign carriers under is pretty high and China Eastern Air flies into the U.S. (http://www.ce-air.com/cea/en_US/homepage).
Here in the U.S. nearly all regional carriers are converting to the more robust CRJ-700 or 900 or Bombardier's competition the ERJ-170 or 190 from Embraer. Here are some pictures:
CRJ-700
CRJ-900
ERJ -170
ERJ -190
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posted on
11/21/2004 7:03:40 AM PST
by
Archangelsk
(Plain, simple soldier. Nothing more, nothing less.)
To: Brian Allen
I am presuming that you and Dr. Marten are having a private conversation?
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posted on
11/21/2004 8:58:49 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(The lack of alcohol in my coffee is forcing me to see reality!)
To: B4Ranch
G'Day, B4 -- not a presumption, an as usual astute observation.
I'd just been telling Dr Marten elsewhere that, particularly as I've had a bit to do with "training" chinese "pilots" in various [Pilot-costumed] roles and [Extremely-limited-by-their"talents"] capacities, I'd never get on a chinese aircraft in any other capacity than as Aircraft Commander.
And as if to make my point the dopes went and stuck another one in the ground.
My apologies for not getting up there, by the way: -- duty called and I was 10,000 miles away B4 I had a chance to blink. Next time, though!
Blessings -- Brian
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posted on
11/21/2004 12:53:49 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
(I am, thank God, a 2X-blessed hyphenated American: An AMERICAN-American - AND a Dollar-a-Day FReeper)
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