空难-The Worst Air Disaster
On August 22, 1981, a Far Eastern Air Transport jetliner (a Boeing 737) bound for Kaohsiung took off from Sungshan Airport. Ten minutes later, at about 10:10 a.m., it exploded in midair over Miaoli. All 110 passingers aboard, among them some Japanese and Americans, were killed. Everybody who heard about the accident was shocked. This was the worst air disaster in Taiwan. What shall we do in face of this misfortune? We must first offer sympathy to relatives of the victims, and then we must urge the airline company to be really careful with its maintenance work. It is only through proper maintenance that we can hope to prevent another major air disaster from happening.
