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Bolt may have holed jet’s tank
The fire that gutted a China Airlines jetliner after it arrived Monday at Naha airport was probably caused by a loose slat bolt that pierced a fuel tank, not a breach in the fuel line in the engine pylon as earlier suspected, Japanese aviation inspectors said Thursday.
[THE JAPAN TIMES]
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