Want China Times, CNA and Staff Reporter 2015-02-06
Letting Chinese officials take part in the probe into Wednesday's air crash in Taipei is allowed by Taiwanese law, Taiwan's top body in charge of China affairs said Thursday.
The wreckage of the crashed plane, Feb. 5. (Photo/CNA) |
Letting Chinese officials take part in the probe into Wednesday's air crash in Taipei is allowed by Taiwanese law, Taiwan's top body in charge of China affairs said Thursday.
Mainland
Affairs Council deputy chief Wu Mei-hung cited the Aviation Safety Council,
which is in charge of the probe, as saying that both Taiwan's Aviation
Occurrence Investigation Act and international conventions allow countries
which manufacture the aircraft or engines of the crashed plane, or whose
citizens are among the victims, to join investigations where the accident
occurred and help handle the aftermath.
China said
it will send officials to help with the investigation into the Wednesday crash
of a TransAsia airways plane in which 22 of 31 Chinese tourists onboard have
been confirmed dead, Wu said, but China has not yet said who the officials are.
Wu cited as
a precedent for the collaboration the 2010 accident in which a Singapore
Airlines plane crashed at Taoyuan International Airport.
Australia
sent experts to join Taiwan's investigation at the time as its citizens were
among the dead in that accident, said Wu.
Earlier
Thursday, Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said
in Beijing that China will send officials on the invitation of Taipei to take
part in the investigation of Wednesday's crash.
He added
the arrangements are part of an agreement between the two sides to invite the
other to take part in probes of major air crashes involving its own citizens.
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