Last Thursday the Shanghai Daily had an article about the fact that since more than 2 years no plane crashes had occured in China, which was a record. They were quite proud of this. Chinese always say that you should not mention these things, because it brings bad luck. I immediately thought about this when I read the news about the China Eastern plane that went down in Baotou this morning. The plane was on its way to Shanghai, but exploded right after the start and fell into an ice covered lake. I know Baotou a bit because Mercedes-Benz used to have heavy truck joint venture there, and also had 2 expats who lived there. Not the best place in the world to live (in the middle of a desert), and probably also not the best place to die.
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