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Captain of TransAsia Flight 235 shut off working engine after other failed: Report
cnn ^ | 02:39 AM PHT Fri, July 3, 2015 | Tim Hume, CNN

Posted on 07/02/2015 11:56:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin

"Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle."

These are the words of the captain of TransAsia Airways Flight GE235, eight seconds before the plane clipped a bridge and plunged into a Taiwanese river mere minutes after takeoff, killing 43 people on board.

The latest report by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council into the February crash confirms that the captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost power.

The plane is designed to be able to be flown on one engine.

The report also showed that the captain had failed simulator training less than a year earlier, partly because he had demonstrated a lack of knowledge of how to respond to engine flameout at takeoff.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnnphilippines.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: flightge235; taiwan; transasiaairways
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A report from Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council confirms that the captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost power. (Photo: TVBS via CNN)
1 posted on 07/02/2015 11:56:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Wow? Wouldn’t “Oops” be more appropriate?


2 posted on 07/02/2015 11:57:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BenLurkin

Capt. Sum Ting Wong at is again?


3 posted on 07/02/2015 11:58:30 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“Capt. Sum Ting Wong at is again?”

Along with first officer Wei Tu Lo!


4 posted on 07/02/2015 12:01:03 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Captain Hee Fak Ahp


5 posted on 07/02/2015 12:02:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sad.

So many stereotypical opportunities here.

I will never fly in an Asian operated airline.


6 posted on 07/02/2015 12:03:24 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Cowboy Bob

“Capt. Sum Ting Wong at is again?”

Watch CNN tonight. Just saying


7 posted on 07/02/2015 12:05:21 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: BenLurkin

Pilot error. Again. As usual. Unbelievable the pilot would throttle down the wrong engine.


8 posted on 07/02/2015 12:05:30 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.” -- Heinlein "Friday")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Survived by his brother Ho Lee Shet.


9 posted on 07/02/2015 12:06:57 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: cicero2k

So he failed similation in a turboprop. Why didn’t they put him in a jumbojet?


10 posted on 07/02/2015 12:07:04 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

And the Flight Stewardess, Wih Wil Dii.


11 posted on 07/02/2015 12:07:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

And the Co-Pilot, Flih’n Tuu Brij.


12 posted on 07/02/2015 12:09:20 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: Flick Lives

Pilot error. Again. As usual. Unbelievable the pilot would throttle down the wrong engine.

...

And then jibber jabber about it, rather than fixing the mistake.


13 posted on 07/02/2015 12:10:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

The Flight Controller in the tower, an American: Hugh D’Plow Ground


14 posted on 07/02/2015 12:11:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: BenLurkin

Lord have mercy.


15 posted on 07/02/2015 12:12:12 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: BenLurkin

TransAsia Flight 235 videos:
(roll tape...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwHwq4L0cY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUoGQZrHhWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-T_ku9NWC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSOEE-5fTs


16 posted on 07/02/2015 12:12:46 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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It’s amazing they weren’t all killed.


17 posted on 07/02/2015 12:17:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Are they sure is wasn't sabotage?



18 posted on 07/02/2015 12:21:46 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: BenLurkin

This actually happened on an airplane I was on back in the day on a KC-135Q. The fire light for the #2 engine came on due to a compressor stall that damaged the #1 engine shutting it down, while the Co-Pilot reached up and pulled the fire switch for the #3 engine. It was like the 3 Stooges with both pilots slapping each other’s hands to push the fire switch back in (too late cut out the #3) and then pull the #2 engine fire switch. Went from a 4 engine to 1 engine aircraft in seconds. Thank God it only happened at 90 knots or I would not be here to share.


19 posted on 07/02/2015 12:50:16 PM PDT by KC-10A BOOMER (Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War!)
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To: Lazamataz

“To the Tower! Rapunzel!’


20 posted on 07/02/2015 12:51:01 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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