Far Eastern Air Transport

Far Eastern Air Transport 臺灣 遠東 航空
IATA code :	FE
ICAO code :	FEA
Call sign :	FAR EASTERN
Founding:	1957
Operation stopped:	2019
Seat:	Taipei , Taiwan
Home airport :	Taipei Songshan Airport
IATA prefix code :	436
Fleet size:	8th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.fat.com.tw
Far Eastern Air Transport 臺灣 遠東 航空 ceased operations in 2019. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Far Eastern Air Transport ( FEAT or FAT , Chinese 臺灣 遠東 航空 ) was a Taiwanese airline based in Taipei and based at Taipei-Songshan Airport .

history

The airline was founded in 1957 as a charter airline and began flight operations in November of the same year. It made its first scheduled flights in January 1965. Due to financial problems, she ceased flight operations on May 13, 2008. On April 18, 2011, flight operations on the Taipei - Kinmen route were resumed.

On February 28, 2018, it was announced that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would be accepted as a means of payment when booking flights .

FEAT ceased operations on December 13, 2019 due to ongoing losses and difficulty in raising new funding. In addition to domestic flights, the company also operated flights to Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and China in November.

Destinations

Far Eastern Air Transport served destinations within Taiwan and Asia from Taipei .

fleet

ATR 72 of Far Eastern Air Transport

Far Eastern Air Transport Boeing 757-200

Fleet at the end of operations

As of December 2019, the Far Eastern Air Transport fleet consisted of 8 aircraft with an average age of 17.6 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
ATR 72-600	02
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	04th		one of them stored
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	02
total	08th

Previously deployed aircraft

Sud Aviation Caravelle of Far Eastern Air Transport 1972

Far Eastern Air Transport has previously operated a. the following aircraft types:

• Boeing 737-100
• Boeing 737-200
• Boeing 757-200
• Douglas DC-3
• Douglas DC-6
• Handley Page Herald
• McDonnell Douglas MD-90
• Sud Aviation Caravelle
• Vickers Viscount

Incidents

Far Eastern Air Transport recorded at least 9 total aircraft losses in its history up to the cessation of operations in December 2019, of which 5 with 212 fatalities. Examples:

• On February 24, 1969, a Far Eastern Air Transport Handley Page Herald ( aircraft registration number B-2009 ) crashed on a flight from Kaohsiung to Taipei in a failed emergency landing near Tainan . All 32 passengers and the four crew members were killed (see also Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 104 ) .

• On July 31, 1975, a Vickers Viscount 837 of Far Eastern Air Transport (FEAT) (B-2029) had an accident while landing at Taipei-Songshan Airport ( Taiwan ). The machine coming from Hualien Airport stalled in a heavy rain field ; the plane crashed on the runway. Of the 75 inmates, 27 died and 48 survived.

• On August 26, 1980, a Vickers Viscount 812 , which FEAT had leased to the Indonesian Bouraq Indonesia Airlines as PK-IVS , crashed about 26 kilometers northeast of the destination Jakarta-Kemayoran airport after a complete loss of control . The cause was the breaking off of the right elevator, caused by the breakage of the centering pin of the right Flettner rudder . This had exceeded its permissible flight hour limit of 12,000 hours by 21,000 hours, almost twice as much. All 37 occupants (6 crew members and 31 passengers) were killed as a result of this maintenance error (see also the flight accident involving Bouraq Indonesia Airlines in 1980 ) .

• On August 22, 1981, a Far Eastern Air Transport Boeing 737 (B-2603) had an accident on the flight from Taipei to Kaohsiung as a result of a structural failure in the air caused by corrosion. Of the 104 passengers, including the Japanese writer Kuniko Mukōda , and the six crew members, none survived (see also Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 ) .

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Web links

Commons : Far Eastern Air Transport  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Far Eastern Air Transport website (Chinese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.aerotelegraph.com/far-eastern-air-transport-taiwan-airline-will-ploetzlich-wieder-zurueckehren
2. ↑ routesonline.com - Far Eastern Air Transport resumes operation , accessed April 28, 2011
3. ↑ 敢為天下先! 遠東 航空 將 全面 接受 加密 數字 貨幣 支付 In: fat.com, February 28, 2018, accessed March 13, 2018.
4. ↑ Flight International, December 17, 2019 (English), p. 6.
5. ↑ planespotters: Far Eastern Air Transport fleet , accessed March 7, 2020.
6. ^ Ulrich Klee and Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966 to 2007.
7. ↑ Accident Statistics Far Eastern Air Transport - FEAT , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 7, 2020.
8. ^ Accident report HP Herald B-2009 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 7, 2020.
9. ↑ Accident report Viscount 800 B-2029 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 7, 2020.
10. ↑ Accident report Viscount 800 PK-IVS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 9, 2018.