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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Aft end resting against the riverbank. Repositioning cables.
A miracle that anyone survived.
If the Chinese was behind this it’s Drone time!
Cables repositioned, taking tension. Majority of plane forward of wings mangled/missing. Trying to get what is left of wing clear of riverbank to lower wreckage on shore.
A trench was dug out on the shore, trying to lower wreckage to ground. For all intents, wreckage is now on shore. Anything forward of the wing is gone.
Looking at still frames from the dashcam footage, several things stand out:
1. less motion blur on prop blades of left engine, clearly not turning at same rpm as right
2. typical exhaust streaks on underside of wing on right engine, but black behind left engine
3. the tip of the left horizontal stabilizer is missing, and before the aircraft has struck anything
Not knowing much about the type, I can’t speculate on the implications of full load single-engine performance, but it looks as if there was a catastrophe failure of the left engine, resulting in tail damage, perhaps critically reducing control authority.
Terrible :(
I-95 cruises right through the landing pattern of eastbound jets at Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood international Airport.
Except for the angle of that aircraft, the sight is a familiar one!
People look out their windows and wave at the drivers of the cars, and the drivers wave back.
I always cringe a little and say a prayer when I am involved in these encounters!
Did it hit that car and pull it into the river too?
That’s some pretty adept keyboard forensic work freeper.
Trying to lift the cockpit ashore, not successful, looks as though the cable sliced through.
Interestingly 4 have involved this airline.
Source: Wiki
Guy on the phone: “Hi boss, you’re not going to believe this...”
2nd attempt to bring cockpit ashore. More of a drag than a lift. Looks like it may be ashore , view is obscured by fuselage.
If you listen real close to the audio of the mayday call that someone posted above (24?) you can hear the pilot say left engine before he says mayday.
The torque on the operating engine rolled the plane over
With the third pilot onboard—and having that many flight hours—I wonder if he was a check pilot, assigned to evaluate the pilot or co-pilot. Other possibility is that he was just dead-heading to his next destination, though most transient crew members (at least the ones I’ve observed in the states) seem to fly in the cabin, enroute to their next flight assignment.
Left prop windmilling. Vmc’s a bitch when you bank into the dead engine.
The only recovery is to reduce power on the good engine but the buildings made that tough, he might have been able to maneuver to his left but not sure if there are any obstacles over there. That aircraft will fly easily on one engine.
When I was going through all the classes to get my ESL endorsement, I studied linguistics. Fascinating. I finally understood all the why’s of language development. I’ll have to give Korean a listen.
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