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TransAsia plane crashes in Taiwan river, killing at least 23 people

Taiwan Plane’s Engines Lost Power Before Crash





A TransAsia Airways flight in Taiwan carrying 58 passengers and crew careened past buildings, clipped a highway and crashed into a shallow stream, killing at



least 23 people.



TransAsia GE 235, a domestic flight from Taipei to Kinmen – a small archipelago near mainland China – crashed at 10.56am local time, according to Taiwan’s



aviation council, about three minutes after it took off. Astonishing dash-cam videos posted online showed the turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft in its final



airborne moments, turning vertical over a highway and clipping a taxi cab and a bridge with its left wing.



TAIPEI—Fuel to the left engine of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 was manually cut off after the right engine of the twin turboprop plane appeared to have



malfunctioned almost immediately following takeoff, according to flight data reviewed by Taiwan officials investigating the deadly crash in Taipei.



Both engines stopped producing thrust just before the ATR72-600 crashed into the city’s Keelung River on Wednesday four minutes after takeoff, the data



indicate.



The data raise the possibility that the pilot may have mistakenly cut fuel to the only engine keeping the plane in flight.



In releasing the information on Friday, Taiwan aviation safety authorities declined to provide any interpretation or speculate on the cause of the crash.



More bodies were recovered on Friday from the Keelung River, the Taipei-based airline said, bringing the total number of fatalities to 35 with 15 injured and



eight people—all Chinese nationals—still missing. The plane was carrying 53 passengers and five crew members. Many of the passengers were tourists from



China, from the mainland province of Fujian, next to the outlying island of Kinmen.



Data retrieved from the voice and data flight recorders on the flight show that the turboprop experienced trouble shortly after takeoff. A warning alarm



sounded around 37 seconds into the flight at an altitude of 1,200 feet, according to the data, which the cockpit crew believed indicated that the right engine



had had a “flameout”—an aviation term for suddenly stopping.