© Associated PressCoast guard teams search for bodies and wreckage after a China Airlines crash off the Penghu islands in 2002.
Taipei, Taiwan - The two-seat Taiwanese fighter jet disappeared last week during a routine training mission over the Taiwan Strait. Debris and body parts were found the next day, but authorities are at a loss to explain what happened.
The October 20 crash revived decades-old speculation: Are Taiwan's Penghu islands the Bermuda Triangle of Asia?
"The Bermuda terror," boomed a headline in the
United Evening News, a Taiwanese newspaper. "Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years over here."
Cable news stations aired grisly images of earlier plane crashes in the area, sparking debate in Internet chat rooms.
Comment: Interesting how noone takes into consideration that space debris might have fallen into the sea nearby, producing the huge waves upon impact. It is a possibility after all.