Captain Survives Crashing Into Mountain / Air China Flight 129 Crashes on Approach
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The Aircraft Hits a Mountain
At 11 21, the controller asked what their position was, and the second officer said, they were turning on final. The pitch attitude increased to 11 point four degrees,. Two seconds later, there was a sound of impact recorted on the cockpit voice recorder. And the aircraft impact at the mountain, which located north of the airport, about two and a half miles from the runway threshold. Even if they had been at 700 feet, they still would have hit this mountain.
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