TransAsia Airways Flight 235

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TransAsia Airways Flight 235
TransAsia Airways ATR 72-212A B-22816 Departing from Taipei Songshan Airport 20150101c.jpg

The plane that crashed in January 2015 took off from Taipei Songshan Airport.
Accident summary
Accident type Loss of control after engine failure
place Keelung River (基隆河), Nángǎng District (南港 區), Taipei (臺北市), Taiwan 25 ° 3 ′ 48 ″  N , 121 ° 37 ′ 3 ″  ETaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) 
date 4th February 2015
Fatalities 43
Survivors 15th
Aircraft
Aircraft type ATR 72-600
operator TransAsia Airways
Mark B-22816
Departure airport Taipei Songshan Airport , TaiwanTaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) 
Destination airport Kinmen Airport , TaiwanTaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) 
Passengers 53
crew 5
Lists of aviation accidents
Rescue operation on the Keelung River

TransAsia Airways Flight 235 ( flight number GE235) is a domestic scheduled flight operated by Taiwanese airline TransAsia Airways from Taipei Songshan Airport to Kinmen Airport in Fujian Province . On February 4, 2015, there was an accident shortly after take-off. The current on one of the wings of the ATR 72-600 broke off , and when it sagged, the machine brushed against a bridge and fell into the Keelung River .

plane

The aircraft with the serial number 1141 was an ATR 72-600, which made its maiden flight on March 28, 2014. She received the aircraft registration B-22816. The aircraft, which is equipped with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127M engines, was delivered to TransAsia Airways on April 15, 2014 . The last regular maintenance on the ten-month-old machine was carried out on January 26, 2015.

the accident

The aircraft took off from Runway 10/28 of Taipei-Songshan Airport in an easterly direction at 10:52 a.m. local time with 53 passengers and 5 crew members on board. 37 seconds after take-off, the right engine suffered an engine failure due to a flame failure, according to radio communications and the aircraft's flight recorder . However, the crew mistakenly switched off the left engine, so that both no longer ran. An attempt to restart the left engine did not lead to success in time. The lack of propulsion resulted in a stall . The machine then rolled to the left until the bank angle was about 90 degrees. In this flight position, as shown by video recordings, the aircraft's left wing tip brushed the roadway of the Huandong Expressway (環 東 大道) running along the Keelung River and a taxi driving there (both occupants of which were slightly injured). The plane crashed into the river about 5.4 kilometers from the end of the runway. The machine came to a standstill on its back and almost completely covered by water.

15 inmates survived the crash. 60 divers and current rescuers were used to rescue the victims from the river. The cloudy water made a systematic search for sunken corpses difficult. The last of the 43 victims was recovered 3 km downstream on February 13. Both pilots did not survive the accident. During the rescue work, one of the divers died of hypothermia.

Work-up

The Taiwanese Aviation Authority imposed a flight ban on two Taiwanese airlines on all 22 aircraft of the crashed ATR-72 in order to carry out safety checks. A few days after the crash, TransAsia pilots underwent a safety test that ten pilots failed. These were then suspended from duty. The relatives of the victims were offered compensation of around 400,000 euros each.

In July 2015, the Taiwan's Aviation Authority issued an interim report on the course of the accident. The evaluation of the flight data recorder showed that the pilot Liao Jian-zong was piloting the aircraft when the accident occurred. When one engine of the twin-engine machine failed, the pilot reacted obviously incorrectly and switched off the remaining engine. When he realized his mistake, however, it was too late to correct it. At the time of the accident, Liao had 4914 flight hours of flight experience, 250 of which were on the type of the crashed aircraft. Immediately after the accident, all TransAsia-Airways pilots received training for engine failures.

The final report published on June 30, 2016 essentially confirmed the assumptions made in the preliminary reports. Accordingly, there was a computer-related loss of power on the right engine, which was shut down by the automatic control system. The propeller was moved into the sail position at the same time. The crew then failed to work through the relevant checklists. The master erroneously switched off the left engine, although the copilot pointed out to him that the problem had occurred in the other engine. Too much time then passed in which the crew did not notice this error and the engine did not restart. Ultimately, there was a stall to which the crew could no longer react due to the low altitude, which then led to the crash into the river. In particular, the lack of coordination of the crew's actions and the lack of communication among each other were highlighted in the report. The aircraft itself would have been airworthy with one engine.

Representation in the media

In the Canadian television series Mayday - Alarm im Cockpit , the accident was recreated in the seventh episode of season 17 as a crash in the river (German title).

See also

Web links

Commons : TransAsia Airways Flight 235  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Crash: Transasia AT72 at Taipei on Feb 4th 2015. avherald.com, February 13, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2015 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Aircraft Database - B-22816. In: Airframes.org. Retrieved February 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ http://www.aerotelegraph.com/atr-flugzeug-trans-asia-airways-stuerzt-in-taiwan-taipeh-in-fluss
  4. ↑ ATR 42/72 - MSN 1141 - B-22816. Retrieved February 4, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Data sheet for the aircraft involved in the accident on Airfleets.net. Airfleets.net, accessed February 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ 最後 10 秒 仍 努力 拉 感謝 「機長 救 了 台北」。 Article on AppleDaily from February 5, 2015 (Chinese). Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  7. ^ Accident report B-22816, Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 14, 2016.
  8. ↑ TransAsia airplane crashes in Taipei: 12 killed, 29 unaccounted for. Article in The China Post on February 4, 2015 at 1:08 pm local time. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ 感謝 復 航 失事 班機 駕駛 柯 P 哽咽。 Article on newtalk.tw from February 5, 2015 (Chinese). Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ 台湾 民航 班机 坠毁 至少 23 人 罹难。 Article on VOA from February 6, 2015 (Chinese, with video). Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  11. ↑ TransAsia plane crash: pilot's body found still clutching joystick in: The Daily Telegraph February 6, 2015, accessed July 2, 2015
  12. ↑ a b Ten pilots fail safety checks in: Süddeutsche Zeitung February 12, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2015
  13. ↑ Taiwan air crash pilot hailed a hero for steering doomed flight away from skyscrapers. The Guardian: February 5, 2015, accessed February 5, 2015
  14. ↑ TransAsia crash pilot pulled wrong throttle, shut down sole working engine in: The Guardian , July 2, 2015, accessed July 2, 2015
  15. ^ Fatal TransAsia ATR crash attributed to crew shortfalls. June 30, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Pilot Error Blamed for Taiwan's 2015 TransAsia Plane Crash on: China Radion International, June 30, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016