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Decay Under Patches Might Have Caused China Airlines Crash

Steve Scott
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Most of the bodies of the people who were sitting in the back of China Airlines (CAL) Flight CI-611 were found naked, a telling indicator of the tremendous stripping forces of rapid decompression when the B747-200 came apart over the Taiwan Strait on May 25, 2002 Hopefully, the last moments for the 225 passengers and crew were blessedly brief. The 23-year old plane came apart from metal fatigue, the possible result of a repair made 22 years before. As in…

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