Passengers on a China Airlines plane that caught fire at the Okinawa airport criticized the flight crew on August 23, saying they gave unclear evacuation instructions that could have caused potentially fatal delays.

TV footage of August 20's explosion of a China Airlines passenger jetliner at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture was shocking. The aircraft went up in a fireball and belched columns of black smoke while the fuselage was reduced to a charred wreck.

On August 25, Taiwan's China Airlines denied that it had ignored warning signals about a plane that burst into flames in Japan with 165 people on board.

The 165 passengers and crew of China Airlines flight CI120 made it out just in the nick of time.

Boeing 737-800 jets used by two Hong Kong airlines have been inspected to ensure there are no fuel leaks, according to the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department.

On August 21, Taiwan's "civil aviation authority" hailed the crew of the China Airlines plane for successfully evacuating all the passengers even as flames tore through the jet.

China Airlines was ordered by the Taiwanese government to ground temporarily its 11 remaining 737-800s for safety checks following the post-landing fire and explosion that destroyed a 737-800 at Naha Airport in Okinawa on August 20.

On August 22, a Cessna C-206 plane crashed in Venezuela's eastern city of Anaco, killing two men onboard.

Twelve bodies have been recovered after a plane crash, which happened after the plane took off from the French Polynesian island of Moorea, said local officials.

A passenger plane of China Airlines from Taiwan was almost completely destroyed in fire on August 20 at Naha airport of Southern Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, according to Japanese media.