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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More footage or just closer?
Just awful
17 in hospitals, 3 of those not responsive. The rest trapped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9q7cWeh3oI#t=126 (latest update from english news)
Hashtag #GE235 has the twit updates.
FlightRadar24.com is showing that the aircraft was only airborne for about three minutes before trying to turn back and crashing. ATC recordings state that the flight called a mayday, reporting an engine flame out (23:25 – in Mandarin).
http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/02/transasia-atr72-flight-ge235-crashes-take-off/
graphs at link above
Did a 6 different frame stops on the vid in post 42 and in each case it looks like the prop on the left engine isn’t spinning up as fast as the prop on the right side.
approx 23:31 the mayday
Mayday on atc link actually 23:25 (approx) in Mandarin except for Mayday.
ouch
omg
Amazing it wasn’t worse, but 30 still missing.
good thing that road wasn’t crowded
I wonder if the Taxi guy saw it coming? Very sad.
you are right. this is a smaller airport and it was around 10-11 am or so, but IIRC Taipei is pretty dense in population?
I doubt he was looking in that direction.... up
Probably not. Good for his sake.
Looking at the slow mo, the left wing prop is not spinning like the right. Good catch!
Google street view shows he had power lines right in front of him. Perhaps he was trying to avoid them.
OMG! Did you rewind it and watch from the beginning? What a Chinese fire drill! How many people still drowning while these idiots can’t pilot a boat?
There are many unaccounted for. I don’t see how they could have survived. I’ve seen some reports of 16 survivors.
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