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An Asiana Airlines Boeing 744 cargo plane has crashed in waters off South Korea's southern Jeju island.
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Crash: Asiana B744 near Jeju on Jul 28th 2011, fire in cargo hold
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NTSB ASSISTS GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH KOREA IN AVIATION ACCIDENT
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Last recorded Flight of the ill fated HL7604 on FlightRadar24.
Departing Frankfurt Main
Last time seen on FlightRadar24 as it approaches Mongolia
R.I.P. to the crew.
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Search for Downed Cargo Plane's Black Box Continues
As the search continued on Thursday for the missing pieces of the puzzle to explain why an Asiana cargo plane suddenly crashed into the waters off Jeju on July 28, neither the bodies of the crew, including the pilot, nor the aircraft's black box flight recorder had been recovered.
On the seventh day after the plane submerged, a joint military-police search team made up of 10 vessels, including coast guard patrol boats, Navy vessels, and the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration's marine survey ships, as well as three helicopters, were still struggling to turn up results.
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Deep Sea Divers to Search for Black Box of Asiana Cargo Jet
The government will deploy elite divers from the Navy Ship Salvage Unit and deep sea divers from the Japanese Navy to search for the black box of an Asiana cargo plane that crashed off the coast of Jeju Island in July.
A Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs official said on Sunday, "We're conducting operations to salvage parts of the aircraft from the ocean, but the water is very murky and the currents are strong, making it impossible to recover the plane." The official added if Navy SSU divers cannot accomplish the mission, it will ask the Japanese Navy for assistance.
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Bodies of missing South Korean pilots found months after crash
The bodies of two pilots of an Asiana Airlines cargo plane which crashed in the sea off a South Korean island in late July have been recovered, police said on Sunday. The exact causes of the accident remain unclear.
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