Thursday, March 26, 2015

Taiwan TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Turboprop Crash

Taiwan TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Turboprop Crash ---
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31 killed February 4, 2015 Taiwan TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Turboprop Crash A passenger plane clipped a bridge and plunged into a river in Taiwan. The pilot called out “Mayday” three times during flight, reporting "flameout" or loss of one engine. The plane is capable of flying on one engine, but thrust in both engines was lost as the crew for unknown reasons shut down the left engine after a warning light for the right engine went on, and did not restart it in time. 31 of the plane’s 58 passengers, including the pilot and co-pilot, have been confirmed dead.  Authorities denied an unconfirmed report that the captain, Liao Chien-tsung, had complained of "engine abnormalities" after a previous flight and requested an urgent inspection of the plane shortly before its final take-off, but had been rebuffed.

* Sources

thesource  February 4, 2015TransAsia Airways Flight 235 A TransAsia Airways ATR 72 turboprop aircraft with fifty-eight people on board crashes into the Keelung River near the Taiwanese capital Taipei. At least 31 people were killed with several injured or missing. (Bloomberg), (Fox News), (BBC)


  • TransAsia flight data show both engines failed - USA Today

    www.usatoday.com/.../transasia-airways-flight-235.../229682...USA Today
    Feb 6, 2015 - The TransAsia Airways flight that killed at least 35 people when it crashed ... The pilot on Flight 235 had 4,900 hours of flying experience.Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration denied claims the pilots had reported problems with one of the plane's engines after an earlier flight Wednesday from Kinmen — an outlying island — to Taipei. The China Post newspaper said pilot Liao asked for a maintenance check by ground staff, ahead of the plane's return to Kinmen, but was refused as the airline feared being fined for a delay.



  • TransAsia Flight 235: Both Engines Lost Power Before River ...




  • www.nbcnews.com/.../transasia-flight-235-both-engines-l...NBCNews.com
    Feb 6, 2015 - Both engines on TransAsia Flight 235 lost power and pilots tried to restart one of them before the ... Ongoing: German Plane Crash · ISIS Terror .... Mayday Call Made Before TransAsia Airways Flight Crash · Air Crash Survivor:  ...



  • Agency: Problems with both engines before TransAsia crash ...www.cnn.com/2015/02/06/asia/taiwan-transasia-plane-crash/



  • CNN
    Feb 8, 2015 - (CNN) The pilots of TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 grappled with problems with both engines before the plane clipped a bridge and crashed  ...The two engines on the ATR 72 turboprop aircraft stopped producing power one after the other, leaving the plane flying without thrust for more than a minute, according to the agency. During the crisis in the cockpit, the pilots received a series of alerts, starting with an alarm related to one of the engines and followed by five stall warnings as the plane lost thrust..The pilots issued a mayday alert to air traffic control, announcing an engine flameout, or power failure. They eventually managed to restart the engine, but it was too late to prevent a crash....Thomas Wang, the council's managing director, said investigators will look into the crew's role, including the possibility they shut off the left engine in response to a warning about the right engine. He said the left engine could have stopped working for multiple reasons. "Either someone reduced it or something else happened, a mechanical failure," Wang said. "We don't know."



  • TransAsia plane had engine trouble before crash - CNN.com

    www.cnn.com/2015/02/07/asia/taiwan-transasia-plane-crash/

    CNN
    Feb 7, 2015 - The death toll from a TransAsia Airways plane crash rose to 40 on ...Flight 235 crashed into a river in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, shortly after  ...






    • *Wikipedia

    TransAsia Airways Flight 235

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    TransAsia Airways Flight 235
    TransAsia Flight 235 crash.png
    Still from a dashcam video, showing Flight 235's left wing clipping a taxi and the Huandong Viaduct, moments before the aircraft crashed into the Keelung River
    Accident summary
    Date4 February 2015
    SummaryCrashed soon after takeoff; under investigation
    SiteKeelung River, Taipei,Taiwan
    25°03′48″N121°37′04″ECoordinates: 25°03′48″N 121°37′04″E
    Passengers53
    Crew5
    Injuries (non-fatal)17 (including 2 on ground)
    Fatalities43
    Survivors15
    Aircraft typeATR 72-600
    OperatorTransAsia Airways
    RegistrationB-22816
    Flight originTaipei Songshan Airport,Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan
    DestinationKinmen Airport, Kinmen, Taiwan
    TransAsia Airways Flight 235 (GE235/TNA235) was a domestic flight that crashed into theKeelung River on 4 February 2015, shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, 5.4 km (3.4 mi) to the west. The TransAsia Airways flight, operated with a ten-month-old ATR 72-600aircraft, was flying from Taipei to Kinmen (Quemoy), a Taiwanese island off the coast of mainlandFujian, with 53 passengers and five crew on board. There were 15 survivors.
    Two minutes after takeoff, the pilots reported an engine flameout. Flight 235 climbed to a maximum height of 1,050 feet (320 m), then descended. Immediately before crashing into the river, it banked sharply left and clipped a taxi travelling west on the Huandong Viaduct, then the viaduct itself, with its left wing.
    Flight 235 was the second fatal accident involving a TransAsia Airways ATR aircraft within seven months. Flight 222 crashed on 23 July 2014, killing 48 of the 58 on board.

    Flight[edit]

    Flight 235 departed Taipei Songshan Airport at 10:52 a.m. Taiwan time (02:52 UTC), for its destination of Kinmen Airport, with 53 passengers and five crew members on board.[1] It climbed to an altitude of 1,050 feet (320 m) and then began descending until it crashed.[2] The last pilot communication to air traffic control was: "Mayday, mayday, engine flameout."[3][4] At 10:54, the aircraft crashed into the Keelung River, on the border of Nangang District of Taipei and Xizhi District of New Taipei.
    External video
     Dashcam 1
     Dashcam 2
     Rooftop CCTV
    The crash was recorded by the dashcams in several cars travelling west along the elevated Huandong Viaduct next to the river. The aircraft, flying level, first cleared an apartment building. Then it rolled sharply, at nearly a 90-degree bank angle, left wing down. As the aircraft flew low over the elevated viaduct, its left wingtip struck the front of a taxi travelling west on the viaduct, and the outboard section of the wing was torn off when it struck the concrete guardrail at the edge of the viaduct.[5][4] The aircraft continued its roll and impacted the water upside down,[6] breaking into two main pieces.[7]Two people in the taxi were injured.[3][5]
    At the time of the accident, no adverse weather phenomena were observed. At 11:00 a.m., the cloud base at Songshan was about 1,500 feet (460 m), the visibility was unlimited, and the wind was blowing at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) from the east (a light breeze). The temperature was 16 °C (61 °F).[2]

    Rescue and recovery[edit]


    The aircraft in the Keelung River under rescue, Huandong Viaduct in background
    Taipei police and fire departments received dozens of calls from eyewitnesses, almost immediately after the crash. The Taipei Fire Department, military and voluntary rescue workers arrived at the crash scene only minutes later. They began removing survivors from the rear section of the semi-submerged fuselage and ferried them to shore in inflatable boats. Divers were forced to cut the seat belts of dead passengers, located mostly in the front section, to remove their bodies. That work was made difficult by low visibility underwater.
    The aircraft's flight recorders were recovered shortly after 4 p.m. that day. After 8 p.m., cranes were used to lift large sections of the fuselage ashore.[3][8][9]
    Of the 58 people on board the flight, only 15 survived.[10] On 5 February, the bodies of the pilot, co-pilot and observer were recovered.[11] One of the two flight attendants survived.[12]

    Aircraft[edit]


    B-22816, 34 days before it crashed
    The aircraft involved in the accident was an ATR 72-600 twin turboprop, registration B-22816, MSN1141. It first flew on 28 March 2014, and was delivered to TransAsia Airways on 15 April 2014.[13] BothPratt & Whitney Canada PW127M engines were replaced due to technical issues on 19 April 2014.[14]

    Passengers and crew[edit]

    The passengers comprised 49 adults and four children. Thirty-one passengers were mainland Chinese; many were visitors from Xiamen on a six-day tour of Taiwan.[15][16] The remaining 22 passengers were Taiwanese.[4]
    The all-Taiwanese crew consisted of two pilots, two flight attendants, and one observer, Hong Bing-chung (Chinese: 洪炳衷; pinyin: Hóng Bǐngzhōng), who had a total of 16,121 flying hours,[17] and was seated in the cockpit jump seat. The flight crew, both captains, were:[16][2]
    • pilot Liao Chien-tsung (Chinese: 廖建宗; pinyin: Liào Jiànzōng), age 42, with a total of 4,914 flying hours;
    • co-pilot Liu Tzu-chung (Chinese: 劉自忠; pinyin: Liú Zìzhōng), age 45 and a dual New Zealand–Taiwanese citizen,[18] with a total of 6,922 flying hours.

    Investigation[edit]

    The Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council is leading the investigation into the accident.[4][19] The French BEA was invited to represent the country of manufacture, and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will represent the country of engine manufacture. Other parties to the investigation include the Taiwanese Civil Aeronautics Administration, the operator (TransAsia), the aircraft (ATR) and engine (PWC) manufacturers, and Transport Canada.[20] The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered in the evening of 4 February. Data from them are being analysed.[2]

    6 February press conference[edit]

    On 6 February, investigators revealed that the left engine, which does not appear to have had suffered a malfunction, had been manually shut off,[21] while cautioning that it was "too early to say if human error was a factor".[16] Investigators released the following preliminary sequence of events. All times are local (UTC+8).[20][22]
    • 10:51:13 — Crew receives take-off clearance
    • 10:52:34 — Tower asks crew to contact Taipei Departure
    • 10:52:38 — Right engine failure alert; master warning sounds for 3s
    • 10:53:04 — Crew reduces power to the left engine
    • 10:53:12–18 — Stall warning sounds
    • 10:53:24 — Crew cuts power to the left engine
    • 10:53:34 — Crew declares emergency: "Mayday, mayday, engine flameout"
    • 10:54:09 — Crew calls for restarting the left engine multiple times
    • 10:54:20 — Left engine is restarted
    • 10:54:34 — Master warning sounds again
    • 10:54:35 — An unidentified sound is heard
    • 10:54:36 — Recordings end

    Press reports[edit]

    An unnamed source was reported to have claimed that the captain, Liao Chien-tsung, had complained of "engine abnormalities" and requested an urgent inspection of the plane shortly before its final take-off, but had been rebuffed.[23]

    Reactions[edit]

    The locations of the accident and departure airports shown on a map of Taiwan.
    Kinmen Airport
    Kinmen Airport
    Taipei Songshan Airport
    Taipei Songshan Airport
    TransAsia Airways Flight 235
    Location of the accident and departure/destination airports

    TransAsia Airways[edit]

    Following the accident, TransAsia Airways changed their website and social media branding to greyscale images, in mourning for the presumed deaths of the passengers. On 5 February, TransAsia retired the flight number GE235, changing it to GE2353.[24]

    Taiwan[edit]

    The spokesperson of the Office of the President of the Republic of China reported that President Ma Ying-Jeou was very concerned about the accident and had given orders to the Executive Yuan and related authorities to provide maximum assistance with the rescue. Immediately after the accident, the President of the Executive Yuan, Mao Chi-Kuo, contacted the Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aeronautics Administration to instigate an investigation into the crash, and the minister of national defense to prepare the military for the rescue.[25]

    China[edit]

    Over half of the passengers on board the aircraft were mainland Chinese. On 5 February 2015, Xi Jinping, the president of China, released a statement, ordering that accurate information on the aircraft be obtained as quickly as possible, and that "assistance [be provided] in treating the injured".[26] On the same day, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang instructed relevant departments to obtain accurate information from Taipei as quickly as possible.[27]

    Aftermath[edit]

    The Civil Aeronautics Administration announced that it was to subject all 49 TransAsia Airways ATR pilots to supplementary proficiency tests between 7 and 10 February,[2] resulting in the cancellation of more than 100 TransAsia flights. Ten pilots who failed the engine-out oral test and a further 19 who did not attend were suspended for one month, pending a resit. TransAsia vowed to dismiss pilots who fail again. Reuters reported that the government ordered all Taiwanese airlines to "review their safety protocols".[28][29] The Taiwanese CAA announced that it is focusing its attention on TransAsia's training and operations and the country's labor ministry fined them for breaches of the labor code over excessive working hours.[30][31]
    On 11 February, TransAsia announced the offer of 14.9 million New Taiwan dollars (about US$473,000) in compensation to the family of each of the dead. This amount includes emergency relief and funeral allowance, totalling NT$1.4M (US$44,300), already paid to each family. Not all of the families have accepted the offer.[32]

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