China Airlines Flight 676 [SEP] point in time
China Airlines Flight 676
China Airlines Flight 676 (CAL676, CI676) was a scheduled international passenger flight that crashed into a road and residential area in Tayuan, Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City), near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (present-day Taoyuan International Airport), Taiwan on the night of Monday, 16 February 1998.
The Airbus A300 jet liner was en route from Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali, Indonesia to Taipei, Taiwan. The weather was inclement with rain and fog when the aircraft approached
were 49 passengers, two pilots, and two cabin crew aboard the aircraft. The scheduled flight time was one hour.
At 12:22 local time, while the aircraft was approaching runway 17 at Tawau Airport, it landed 500 metres outside the runway and crashed into a shantytown on the fringes of the airport. There were 34 fatalities and 19 survivors.
See also.
- China Southern Airlines Flight 3456
- China Airlines Flight 676