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To: StanX Long who wrote (64052)	5/27/2002 10:15:25 PM
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"OT" Taiwan searches for crash victims in Beijing waters ADVERTISEMENT sg.news.yahoo.com TAIPEI, May 27 (Reuters) - In rare contact between the rivals, Taiwan has informed Beijing of plans to extend into Chinese-controlled waters a naval search for survivors from Saturday's China Airlines crash in the Taiwan Strait. Beijing had not responded, Taiwanese officials said. A China Airlines Boeing 747-200 broke into four pieces at over 30,000 feet and plunged into the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, killing all 225 people on board in Asia's third major air crash in six weeks. Taipei's semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation sent its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), a letter on Sunday saying the search in waters off western Taiwan would be extended west into waters controlled by China. "We informed the mainland out of courtesy and to avoid misunderstanding," foundation secretary-general Shi Hwei-yow, Taiwan's top negotiator with China, told Reuters on Monday. _________________________________________ UPDATE 1-Taiwan dismisses China missile theory in plane crash (Adds Taiwan military rules out plane hit by Chinese missile, airline share price, writes through) By Benjamin Kang Lim sg.news.yahoo.com TAIPEI, May 27 (Reuters) - Frogmen were expected on Monday to recover the flight recorders of a Taiwan airliner to help explain why the 23-year-old plane broke apart in mid-air, but the military dismissed reports it was hit by a Chinese missile. The China Airlines Boeing 747-200 plunged into the sea on Saturday, killing all 225 people on board in Asia's third major air disaster in six weeks. Fishing boats and naval vessels have so far plucked 83 bodies from the rough waters off the west coast of Taiwan as rescuers gave up hope of finding any survivors from the 206 passengers and 19 crew. "Now that we know the location of the black boxes, we should be able to retrieve them today," said an official at the government emergency response centre. Taiwan's top aviation safety official said on Sunday military radar signals showed flight CI 611 broke into four pieces in mid-air. The break-up of the aircraft, bound for Hong Kong from Taipei, had been suspected after farmers on the western coastal county of Changhua near the plane's flight path had found debris from the aircraft in their fields.