Salvage mission for missing Mirage-2000 fighter plane to continue

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/02
By: Liu Lee-jung and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Dec. 2 (CNA) A salvage mission to locate and retrieve the black box of a missing

CNA file photo

Mirage-2000 fighter jet will resume next week pending good weather after poor weather conditions rendered an attempt this week unsuccessful, an unnamed Air Force official said Saturday.

The official revealed that Kaohsiung-based Dragon Prince Hydro-Survey Enterprise, the company that won the contract for the mission, embarked for the first marine salvage mission Nov. 27.

However, due to poor weather conditions and heavy seas, the team put in to Keelung Port Nov. 29 empty-handed, the official said.    [FULL  STORY]

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