Topic: Taiwan Strait
AFP Asian Edition | 2009-07-15 17:00:28
Taiwan's air force said Wednesday that it had grounded its ageing F-5 fighter jet fleet for urgent safety checks after one plane crashed, killing two pilots. "All the flights of the F-5s have been halted until a thorough safety check is completed," an air force spokesman said. It came after a twin-seat F-5F went missing during a training flight ...
ZUMA Press Inc | 2009-04-30 13:02:38
Top negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan signed an agreement on opening regular direct flights across the Taiwan Strait and expanding air routes and terminals. Chen Yunlin, president of the mainlands Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS ...
AFP Asian Edition | 2008-10-20 06:00:16
Taiwan's air force said Monday one of its fighter jets carrying a pilot and an engineer went missing during routine training off the island's coast. The locally-made twin-seater plane disappeared from radar screens 30 minutes after it took off from the central Chingchuankang air base for a training mission in the Taiwan Strait, the air force said. Two ...
