TransAsia Airways Flight 235
2015 plane crash in Taipei, Taiwan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TransAsia Airways Flight 235 was a domestic flight from Taipei to Kinmen, Taiwan. On 4 February 2015, the aircraft serving the flight, a 10-month-old ATR 72-600, crashed into the Keelung River around 5 km (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) from Taipei Songshan Airport, where the aircraft had just departed from. On board were 58 people, 15 of whom survived.
Accident | |
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Date | 4 February 2015 (2015-02-04) |
Summary | Crashed following engine feathering and pilot error to read data, loss of control |
Site | Keelung River, Taipei, Taiwan 25°03′48″N 121°37′04″E |
Total fatalities | 43 |
Total injuries | 17 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | ATR 72-600 |
Operator | TransAsia Airways |
IATA flight No. | GE235G |
ICAO flight No. | TNA235 |
Call sign | TRANSASIA 235 |
Registration | B-22816 |
Flight origin | Taipei Songshan Airport, Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan |
Destination | Kinmen Airport, Kinmen |
Occupants | 58 |
Passengers | 53 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 43 |
Injuries | 15 |
Survivors | 15 |
Ground casualties | |
Ground injuries | 2 |
Two minutes after takeoff, the pilots reported an engine failure. After climbing to a maximum height of 1,630 ft (500 m), the other engine, still operating normally, was mistakenly shut down.[1][2] The aircraft lost altitude, banked sharply to the left and clipped a taxi travelling west on the Huandong Viaduct (causing two more injuries), then the viaduct itself, before crashing into the river below.
Flight 235 was the second fatal accident involving a TransAsia Airways ATR aircraft within seven months; Flight 222 had crashed on 23 July 2014, killing 48 of the 58 onboard.