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To: Chris who wrote (6092)	2/16/1998 11:26:00 PM
From: Mark[ox5]	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

Hi Chris! Sorry I havent had much to offer, been selling into this strength really. Still looking for very choppy waters in next 3-5 months.. here could be the start of that choppiness.. Monday February 16 5:11 PM EST Jetliner Crashes in Taiwan, 199 Feared Dead By Simon Kwong TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A Taiwanese airliner bringing vacationers home from Bali crashed in a fireball Monday at Taipei's international airport, killing all 197 people aboard and at least two on the ground, officials said. Some of the wreckage slammed into a residential area near the airport after the plane, a China Airlines Airbus 300, crashed in dense fog, setting homes ablaze and injuring several people. Two of those injured on the ground died in a hospital. There were unconfirmed reports that as many as five people were killed in cars struck by flying debris. Among the passengers pronounced dead were Taiwan's central bank governor Sheu Yuan-dong, his wife and three central bank officials who had been on the Indonesian vacation island for a meeting of Southeast Asian central bankers. About two hours after the crash rescue workers pulled out an infant alive from amidst wreckage. They believed the child had not been aboard the flight, but inside one of the homes hit by the aircraft. None of the 182 passengers and 15 crew aboard China Airlines Flight CI676 was known to have survived the crash, which officials initially attributed to a failed landing in poor weather. "Judging from the scene there is little chance of there being any survivors," an airport official told a Reuters reporter as he surveyed the smoldering wreckage. The crash area was a scene of total devastation, with bodies wrapped in white plastic lined up in long rows as rescue workers with flashlights scoured the wreckage for signs of life. Others turned to the task of identifying the dead. Relatives who had come to the airport gathered in shock in the terminal. Others congregated at China Airlines headquarters in Taipei to pore over passenger manifests hung on a wall. No major discernible part of the aircraft, not even the fuselage, could be made out in the wreckage, which was strewn across a wide area adjacent to the airport. "First I heard a great explosion and then the sky suddenly brightened," said a 60-year-old woman who witnessed the crash. "The plane disintegrated," a Reuters photographer said. "The wreckage is strewn everywhere and there are bodies everywhere. Many bodies are dismembered and badly burned. There's no sign of life." The majority of the passengers were Taiwanese returning from beach vacations on the tropical island. Officials said there were several foreigners aboard but their number and nationalities were not known. The air disaster was the worst in Taiwan, though not the worst for Taiwan's leading carrier. A China Airlines Airbus 300 slammed into a mountain in Nagoya, Japan, in 1994, killing 264 passengers and crew. A heavy fog that apparently contributed to the crash still hung over the scene two hours after the 8.05 p.m. (7.05 a.m. EST) disaster. A thick blanket of white firefighting foam gave the jarring impression that snow had fallen on the subtropical island. A 10-year-old boy who was taken alive from the wreckage died a short time later at the hospital. The aircraft's "black box" flight recording gear had yet to be recovered, but all indications pointed to a weather-related landing failure as the cause, officials said. China Airlines officials said the plane appeared to have had problems with its approach to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei's main international terminal in Taoyuan about 40 minutes south of the capital. "Visibility was extremely bad," airline spokesman Liu Kuo-chien told reporters. "The pilot said he was having trouble seeing the runway as he made his approach and asked to come around for another try." "Immediately after he asked for another try, the pilot lost contact with the tower at 8.05," Liu said. Local television swiftly began airing live images of the devastation. No major discernible part, even the fuselage, could be made out in the wreckage. Rescue workers used flashlights to search for signs of life, apparently in vain.