Explosion Hits Plane After Landing Safely in Taiwan
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The Accident Aircraft in Taipei
The accident aircraft are taken off from Xinjiang Airport in Taipei at 12, 16 PM and it reached a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet. It just kind of like heads to the coast between Taipei and Wai Lin, like 20 minute flight. I think they normally budget like 30 minutes for this flight, but on average, it took like 20 minutes. They land nothing irregular on the black boxes until there's an explosion. And that's because in the last two seconds of the recording, an explosion followed by an echo and an utterance of surprise from the first officer can be heard. So presumably there was an explosion. Maybe they started the fire and stopped the cockpit voice recorder
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