Posted on 02/03/2015 8:36:06 PM PST by machogirl
A plane belonging to Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways has crash-landed in a river in Taipei. More than 50 people were onboard at the time, and a number of people were reportedly injured. Some reports said there were several people trapped inside the plane in need of rescue. Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) showed a picture of a plane almost submerged in the Keelung river. The ATR-72 had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was headed to Kinmen Airport on the outskirts of Taiwan, just off the coast of south-east China, CNA said. The cause of the latest incident was not immediately clear. But CNA quoted a government spokesman as saying the plane crashed after hitting an elevated bridge. Local channel ETTV showed footage of the plane banking and hitting a road bridge before crashing into the river. Local media reported that several people had been rescued so far and sent to a nearby hospital. In July last year 48 people died when a TransAsia Airways plane crashed amid stormy weather in Taiwan's Penghu archipelago.
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Have to wonder about that now. Planes are expensive. In countries in which the standard of living is lower, tickets may cost less, but the cost of: The aircraft and fuel, pretty much the same across the planet. So, how do those planes in Third-World Countries (talking about the local airline) fly? Old planes? skip on maintenance?
This video is different and captures other cars driving around the wreckage and the taxi.
http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/02/04/amateur-video-captures-plane-crash-in-ta?videoId=363091472&videoChannel=1
I love watching Korean TV shows online. I don’t even watch US shows any more.
Crash-lands? A crash landing should in some way resemble a landing. That was a plane CRASH.
Will we hear Allahu Akbar on the cockpit voice recorder?
Close Captioned? Subtitles? Do you know enough Korean to process? I’m trying to get my fluency back in Spanish (a “plus” or required on pretty much any job around here and i need a job). I used my Spanish back 8 years ago in grade school teaching (my fluency then back up from two decades of non-use, to second grade maybe, i was translating for ESL kids and i had my teaching license and ESL cred). Now, I can’t process in my head. Once I hear it, I’m stuck translating and the slew of stuff after is lost. I can still read pretty well in Spanish and what I don’t outright understand I can most of the time figure out the word through context of the sentence. In today’s world, they don’t seem to care how WELL you speak/write English (the PC crowd), it’s how well you SPEAK Spanish.
maintenance is what I’m thinking and replacement parts
Duct tape doesn’t work for parts. Not even a year in service.
Don’t think so. Not this time.
Yep, that wasn’t a “controlled landing” of any sort. Looks like it was lost right around the buildings. Wings still level and then left wing dip. Luck for those alive that it landed in the river.
New angle showing wings level (pretty much) until the last few seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csVhi3GmK2A
interesting
Disregard the last 50 seconds or so. It’s a PSA type ending for the safety of flying. (which i’m not arguing that, but airlive added that on to the new angle)
I would not call Taiwan a third-world country
re: That’s some pretty adept keyboard forensic work freeper.
And likely mistaken, as speculation almost always is at this point at after an accident.
Unless the regional authorities succumb to their tendency to put saving face over releasing facts, the causes should be nailed down on this accident pretty quickly.
I had wondered last night when the Taiwan News feed was showing the USAirways controlled landing on the Hudson, if they had info that there was a bird strike?
No, I wouldn’t either. I was thinking of some of the “regional” type airlines in some of the Countries.
That bridge looks pretty high. 60 feet?
Amazing that the plane did not cartwheel or completely crushed. Amazing that with this crash so many did survive.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125735?OCID=twitterasia
That would sum it up.
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