Taiwan Plane Crash Killed 31 passengers
Mayday call shortly before engine flameout plane hits bridge in Taiwan.
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, which is designed to keep all the sounds on the cockpit of the plane were found in the tail of the plane, Xingzhong Ang, executive director of the Council Aviation safety Taiwan, told the news agency.
The flight data recorder stores a large amount of information about device performance, including air speed and cabin pressure.
A pilot who once flew for American Airlines ATRs said it looked like the plane was sliding when the video-cam dashboard multiple angles captured the moment of the accident.
Stephen Fredrick stressed the position of the nose slightly down, and the wings level.
As it gets closer to the freeway, there Sá change in pitch attitude of the aircraft position and it appears that the aircraft stands on the left side, or loses lift which is what causes the bend dramatic left, Fredrick said the room situation CNN wolf Blitzer is what causes the plane to go down with more force and crash.
The plane was 3 miles 5 km from the airport, Fredrick said, at a time when the pilots should have been able to continue the flight even if an engine fails distance told him that the engine problem occurred well after takeoff.
It seems that it would have a single-engine flameout, it could have a dual engine flameout, he says These are things that we will learn.
The left propeller was also a flying position, rather than a position for a motor unusable, he said.
This could have caused drag and prompted the left wing stall, CNN aviation analyst David Soucie said pilot before a flight normally turns on a system that automatically adjusts the position of the propellers, the experts said.
An onboard video-cam captured the moment the plane rushed out over control of Nanhu town bridge before crashing into the Keelung River just after 11 m local time and 10 per m.
CNA reported that the pilot appeared to try to control the aircraft down but the wing of the plane grazed the overpass, clipping a taxi passing.
The two people in the taxi were injured but are in stable condition after being taken to hospital, told CNA.
The news agency reported the efforts of a father who was injured in the accident The man, who was not identified, was on board with his wife and baby 1 year old father, learning his wife and children were sent to separate hospitals, rode a bike to find his wife and baby, told CNA.
The woman and the baby are injured, but not fatally injured, doctors said, according to news agency The father was barely injured.
Rescuers in lifeboats fired water for survivors and wreckage Some passengers seemed to wear life jackets while waiting their turn to board lifeboats.
The army said it had 165 people and many vehicles nearby to help relief efforts if necessary.
Kinmen is a small island under the jurisdiction of Taiwan near mainland China.
Taiwan Administration of Civil Aviation said it had ordered local airlines to conduct inspections on all their ATR 72s before flying again special controls will examine various aspects of engine system, including the fuel and control of the propeller.
TransAsia must inspect 10 aircraft, while another support, Uni Air, to examine 12 the aircraft, according to the agency.
Hours after the accident, TransAsia Airways CEO Chen Xinde extended deep apology to the victims and our crew.
He said 31 of the passengers aboard the flight were Chinese tourists, including three children Twenty-two were from Taiwan, including a child.
The airline had sent a list of passengers to authorities and family confirmed the identity of the deceased, he said.
TransAsia said Thursday it has begun to give families money for emergency condolences $ 200,000 Taiwanese 6360 per victim, according to her, it would also provide additional funding for funeral arrangements of 1 2 million Taiwan dollars 38.160 families identify the bodies.
The 31 Chinese tourists traveling in two tour groups Xiamen Airlines International Travel Service Co and International Travel Service Xiamen Tourism Group Co.
Chou Jih-shine, the vice chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation of - a quasi-government agency that covers the negotiations Strait-against Taiwan - said the agency informed his counterpart in Beijing Chou added that the agency had sent staff at the accident site.
China's representatives will participate in the investigation of the accident, the Council of the Air Safety Taiwan, said Thursday, according to CNA.
Taiwan Administration of Civil Aviation said that the plane was less than a year and was finally completed a safety check on January 26.
The agency provided no information on what may have caused the accident.
The TransAsia crash is the latest in a number of air disasters involving Asian carriers.
AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashed on December 28 as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore There were 162 people on board.
In July, Malaysia Airlines 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard.
TransAsia was involved in another deadly disaster in July of last year Forty-eight people died on board aircraft TransAsia Airways 222 another ATR 72, as he attempts to land in the Taiwanese Penghu Islands bad weather.
TransAsia had lost two ATR 72s before - that crashed in the mountains in 1995, killing all four crew members on board, and crashed into the sea in 2002, killing both pilots, according to CNA.
The biggest recent mystery was the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 He disappeared March 8, 2014, and was not found.
CNN Jethro Mullen, Ed Payne and Katie Hunt contributed to this report.
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