The State - News from Feb. 22, 1985
An unexplained information gap that investigators are trying to recover from a data recorder might explain why a Los Angeles-bound China Airlines jumbo jet with 272 people aboard nose-dived for six miles before landing safely at San Francisco International Airport, a federal official said. The recorder failed to give useful readouts of data taken moments after one of the engines on the Boeing 747 quit and the plane began its plunge, said G. H. Patrick Bursley of the National Transportation Safety Board.
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