Searching for MIA's in China BEIJING (Associated Press) -



China says it's planning a search for the remains of crewmen from a U.S. Air Force bomber that crashed nearly 60 years ago.

Reports say the bomber caught fire and crashed on Nov. 5, 1950, while flying over southern Guangdong province. The crew's mission is not known. One witness tells the Xinhua News Agency he saw the plane crash into a mountain.

Records and eyewitness accounts indicate that four bodies were buried at the crash site, while the fate of the other 11 on board remains a mystery. Military archives show that villagers found a parachute, rifles, a revolver, spoons, English documents and a Parker pen.

The search is being seen as a goodwill gesture ahead of President Barack Obama's first visit to the country next month.

Last year, China yielded to a long-standing U.S. request to provide access to military records that might resolve the fate of thousands of U.S. servicemen missing from the Korean War and other Cold War-era conflicts. © Copyright 2009, Associated Press