At least 11 killed as TransAsia plane crashes in Taiwan river!

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21 dead in Taiwan plane crash
English.news.cn 2015-02-04



http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
• At least 21 people died when a Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei.
• Survivors have been taken to nearby hospitals in Taipei and New Taipei City.
• Flight GE235 was headed for Kinmen from Taipei with 53 passengers on board.


TAIPEI, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 21 people died when a Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei on Wednesday morning, ten minutes after takeoff.

Survivors have been taken to nearby hospitals in Taipei and New Taipei City, according to local disaster relief authorities. The plane's two black boxes have been recovered and should be deciphered Wednesday night.

Flight GE235 was headed for Kinmen from Taipei with 53 passengers on board, including 31 from the Chinese mainland, and five crew. Three of the mainland passengers are known to be children.

The plane has been in service since April 2014 and was subject to a routine safety check this month, according to Taipei authorities.

The aircraft ditched in the river at 10:55 a.m. after its wing clipped a taxi with a man and a woman inside on an elevated motorway.

The mainland passengers were on trips organized by two travel agencies from Xiamen City in the southeast mainland province of Fujian, the Taiwan tourism authority confirmed.

The State Council Taiwan Affairs Office and the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits launched a joint emergency response operation and are being kept up to date by Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and the Straits Exchange Foundation. They extended condolences to families of the victims and urged those on the ground to do as much as they could.

On July 23, 2014, TransAsia Airways flight GE222, also an ATR-72 aircraft, crashed on Taiwan's Penghu islands, killing 48 people.

TransAsia Airways, founded in 1951, was Taiwan's first private airline, mainly focusing on short overseas flights.
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21 dead now.
RIP.

(i shall never use TransAsia Airways)

thank goodness there are alternative to air travel in China---HSR.

 

[Keel]

RIP

Taiwan air safety is still 100 times better than the mainland's.

Mainland tourists can always trust Taiwan's airlines over the mainland's.

RIP

Not correct
Not "100%"
Taiwan has among one of the best and among the worst airline operators

See this ranking: Safety Ranking 2014 » JACDEC

# 5 EVA AIR BR, EVA

Index 0,010
# 14 HAINAN AIRLINES HU, CHH

Index 0,015
# 19 SHENZHEN AIRLINES ZH, CSZ

Index 0,018
# 36 CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES MU, CES

Index 0,082
# 42 AIR CHINA CA, CCA

Index 0,168
# 48 CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES CZ, CSN

Index 0,235

# 58 CHINA AIRLINES CI, CAL

Index 1,130

 

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@Yizhi
I'd stay away from China Airlines too, the accident in 2002 is freaking scary

China Airlines is Taiwanese company. You know most morons when they see the word "China" they assume it's the mainland.

 

[Keel]

The vids showing the tragedy

TransAsia plane crashes into river in Taiwan - latest updates - Telegraph

 

[Keel]

RIP. Pilot error or mechanical fault?

One of the engines has stalled before it clipped the concrete. Also

"12.19 Sky News is reporting that the pilot's final words were "Mayday, Mayday, engine flameout", according to air traffic control.
A “flame-out” meant the plane’s engine had “failed and is not providing any power,” according to Mr Ross, the aviation expert."

" 09.21 Some facts about the plane. It is a turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft and the crash is the airline's second in less than a year.
Last July, one of its ATR 72-500 planes crashed while trying to land at Penghu Island. In that incident, 48 of the 58 passengers and crew on board died.
TransAsia is the country's third-largest carrier and is the latest crash in recent times on the continent."

TransAsia plane crashes into river in Taiwan - latest updates - Telegraph

TRANSASIA AIRWAYS GE222

A twin-propeller ATR 72-500 operated by TransAsia Airways crashed into homes on the island of Penghu in the Taiwan Strait, west of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, as it made a second attempt to land on July 23. Four crew members and 44 passengers were killed; 10 passengers survived. There was heavy rain and low visibility at the time.

TransAsia Taiwan plane crash: 12 months of Asia air travel disasters - Telegraph

I think the Taiwanese government should take the immediate action of grounding all operations of these 2 models of airplanes until clearance. 2 accidents within 8-9 months. Horrible!

According to wiki, TransAsia still have (6-1=5) ATR 72-500 and (4-1=3) ART 72-600 in operation
And the one in trouble his time is only in service for just 1 year.

TransAsia Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

edit: Taiwan has announced grounding of the models

 

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[Yizhi]

Rescuers salvage the plane wreckage in the Keelung River in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 4, 2015. At least 23 people died after a Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei on Wednesday morning, ten minutes after takeoff. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

31 dead, 15 with injuries, and 12 missing.
Death toll in Taiwan plane crash rises to 31 - Xinhua | English.news.cn
reaction from mainland: Xi orders assistance after TransAsia plane crash - Xinhua | English.news.cn
16 of 31 killed in Taiwan plane crash from mainland - Xinhua | English.news.cn
31 on that plane are mainland tourists..... right before Spring Festival.....

 

[Aepsilons]

May God grant peace to those who died.

 

[TimeTraveller]

TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane hit a road bridge before ploughing into the river. PHOTO: @TOMGRUNDY

TAIPEI: Eleven of the 58 people on board a TransAsia plane were killed after it crash landed in a Taipei river, a TV station reported on Wednesday.

Earlier, the government had said at least two people were killed in the incident, while civil aeronautics authorities put the number of those rescued at about 16. Thirty-one mainland Chinese tourists were among those on board, Taiwan’s tourism bureau said.

A passenger plane with 58 people on board plunged into a river outside Taiwan’s capital Taipei Wednesday, with 17 people rescued and dozens trapped inside, according to television reports.
A statement released by the Taiwanese Central Disaster Response Centre said “The plane lost contact at 10.53am on and was found in Keelung river in Taipei. The ministry of transportation contacted the disaster response centre 20 minutes later. Taipei city rescue teams are in operation, having rescued 16 people who were admitted to a nearby hospital, with two announced dead on arrival.”

PHOTO: AFP

Several fire engines, ambulances, water craft and almost 170 rescue staff were deployed.

The TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane was on a domestic flight when it hit a road bridge before ploughing into the river, the reports said. Rescuers were trying to reach the trapped passengers.

On Twitter, photos emerged of the plane as it attempted to make its crash landing.
Television images showed rescuers standing on large sections of broken wreckage trying to pull passengers out of the plane with ropes. Those who were rescued — including two children — were put in dinghies and taken to the shore.

Rescuers pull a passenger out of the TransAsia Airways plane which crash landed in a river, in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

Some were then loaded on stretchers and all 17 rescued have been taken to hospital, reports said.

Officials at Taiwanese emergency services were not immediately available to comment.

The accident happened just before 11:00 am (0300 GMT), a few minutes after the plane took off from Taipei’s Songshan airport en route to the island of Kinmen.

PHOTO: AFP

Last July 48 people were killed after another domestic TransAsia flight crashed onto houses during a storm on the Taiwanese island of Penghu.

Video:

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Thanks For Tagging Sir.....And Sorry for answering so late.....RIP.....Very sad news..........