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An Air China airliner bound for Chongqing from Guangzhou City in south China bumped into a wire pole and rooted it up Sunday, when it was temporarily landing at the Guiyang Airport in southwest China's Guizhou Province due to bad weather, the Beijing News reported Monday.
All the 132 passengers and crew members aboard are safe and sound, the paper citing sources with the Guiyang Airport as saying.
The airliner's left airfoil uprooted an over 10-meter-high wire pole beside the airstrip, and the accident has left a big hole in the wing. The plane came to a stop after sliding for a few meters.
The Boeing 737-800 flight, numbering CA4350, took off at about 6:40 PM Sunday, more than three hours later than the scheduled time. The reason of the delay is still unknown, according to the newspaper.
A passenger on board, who is surnamed Wang, said at about 8:20 PM., when the plane prepared to land at the Jiangbei Airport of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, the flight's terminal, passengers were told they could not land there and would instead go to the Guiyang Airport for emergency landing.
As of 11:00 PM Sunday, the CA4350 flight had been canceled.
Several other Chongqing-bounding flights were also obliged to land in Guiyang due to the bad weather, including a plane from Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, the paper citing sources with the Guiyang Airport as saying.
(Xinhua News Agency December 13, 2004)
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