TAIPEI, May 25 (IslamOnline & news Agencies) - A Boeing 747 of Taiwan's China Airlines carrying 225 people crashed into the sea off Taiwan Saturday during a flight to Hong Kong, Agence France-Presse reported.

China Airlines said flight CI611 disappeared from radar screens at 3:28 pm (0728 GMT) shortly after taking off from Taipei bound for Hong Kong, AFP said.

While no survivors have been found yet, one body and the wreckage were found, TVBS television reported.

Following a  meeting of the government's emergency response team, Premier Yu Shyi-kun confirmed the plane had plunged into the sea off the island of Peng-hu tao, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Taiwan.

"Some life jackets were found by rescuers floating some 25 nautical miles northeast of Peng-hu tao," Yu said.

Six helicopters and 10 coastguard and naval vessels were sent to the waters to search for any survivors, he said.

"Rescuers on board a S-70C helicopter found a lot of oil floating some 20 nautical miles northeast of Makung," the biggest city in Peng-hu tao, he told reporters.

A C-130 transport aircraft involved in the rescue mission also spotted a door of the ill-fated aircraft floating on the water, Chang said.

Chang said the control tower at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport had not received any messages of distress from the pilots before the plane crashed.

The minister would not speculate on the cause of the accident. Weather conditions were fine around Peng-hu tao when the plane went down.

The 225 people on board comprised 206 passengers, including three children, and 19 crew members, AFP said. A total of 190 passengers were Taiwanese, 14 came from Hong Kong and Macau, one was Singaporean and one European, a transport ministry official said without specifying the European's nationality.

According to AFP, China Airlines has a chequered safety record. It reportedly had nine fatal accidents since 1970.

In August 1999, three passengers were killed and 200 injured when a CAL MD-11 on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong overturned and caught fire after landing at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport in a storm.