- No wonder 14 of these planes have crashed in the last 10 years- The chord should be at least as wide as the fuselage for good lift.
This thing is a flying coffin with a spaghetti wing.
compare wings of ATR 72 to a C130`s wings 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/taiwan-plane-crash-lands-in-river
Pictures and video at above link
58 on board. Mayday call. Engine out. Wing clipped a taxi. Flight GE235. Flightaware data, it’s a flight from Taipei to Kinmen.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/TNA235
About this plane. 03-28-2014 delivery
http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-atr-1141.htm
Not good.
Preparing to attach cable from crane to plane.
If the Chinese was behind this it’s Drone time!
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.
The torque on the operating engine rolled the plane over
Left prop windmilling. Vmc’s a bitch when you bank into the dead engine.
Holy crap... that is horrible.
Any thinking being stays away from Asian airlines these days.
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?
- No wonder 14 of these planes have crashed in the last 10 years- The chord should be at least as wide as the fuselage for good lift.
This thing is a flying coffin with a spaghetti wing.
compare wings of ATR 72 to a C130`s wings
re: compounded possibly by mismanagement of the remaining good engine
FDR says that the right engine failed, and auto-feathered. Then the pilots gradually reduced power on the left (why?). This was basically a glider during the dashcam footage.
http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/engine-failure-related-procedures-focus-transasia-probe
That was no crash-landing. That was a crash!
Old aviation definitions: a good landing is one you walk away from; a great landing is when you can take off again. That was a bad landing!