A TransAsia Airways plane with 58 people aboard crashed into a river after hitting an elevated bridge, Sidney Lin, a Taipei city spokesman, told Focus Taiwan news. Taiwan state media reports that at least eight people died in the crash.
Rescuers rushed to the scene of the crash, where a large portion of wrecked fuselage jutted out of the shallow Keeling River. The turboprop aircraft was headed from Taipei to the island of Kinmen on the outskirts of Taiwan when it went down, the Straits Times reports.
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I live less than a kilometre from the airport the plane took off from, heard all the sirens going like crazy this morning. It's 7pm now and unless you went right to the area around the river you'd never know it happened.
I saw a headline flash by on my Facebook feed that said the death toll is up to 48 with 10 survivors, but I can't find the article now...
"Shortly after takeoff at 10:52L (02:52Z) the aircraft began to roll left, the crew radioed "Mayday! Mayday! Engine Flame Out!" at 10:53L with no further transmission, the aircraft reached a maximum height of about 1050 feet (corrected for QNH), lost height, struck a taxi, hit a Huangdong Boulevard Viaduct with its left wing at nearly 90 degrees of bank angle at about 10:55L (02:55Z) and impacted the water of the Keelung River near the Nankang Software Park coming to rest inverted, about 2.9nm from the end of runway 10"
Someone correct me if they think I'm right out to the lunch, but in this video you can pretty much see the exact moment the left wing decides to drop (Vmc or Vsse point?) and it's pretty much all over from there:
Also if it was indeed an engine failure, this should not be an issue for an aircraft like this, as they are designed to be able to continue to fly safely and return for a landing on one engine. Will be interesting to see what happened here and if there are other contributing factors (auto-feather failure? overweight? pilot error?) that led to this.
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A post from a pilot forum on the ATR-72's procedure for an engine failure after the V1 speed:
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For 72/42-500
Engine flame out at V1.... continue with take off (PNF checks Up-trim on live engine and autofeather on dead engine )
+ve rate of climb: Gear up, (up to this point you will be climbing with v2+5)
Acceleration altitude (500ft agl): Set alt....this meant to let speed increase
As speed reaches White bug.....set IAS on ADU, set MCT and flap to zero if normal conditions. If in icing conditions the flap will remain 15.
You note above that you will initially climb at v2+5 before climbing at White bug speed when you reach your acceleration altitude.
You had engine flame out at take off, why would you want climb to 20,000ft. You will basically climb to a safe altitude, hold somewhere for you to get some time to finish the checklist before initiating an approach. In a practical circumstance you will do a circuit if you are visual and land ASAP
"Shortly after takeoff at 10:52L (02:52Z) the aircraft began to roll left, the crew radioed "Mayday! Mayday! Engine Flame Out!" at 10:53L with no further transmission, the aircraft reached a maximum height of about 1050 feet (corrected for QNH), lost height, struck a taxi, hit a Huangdong Boulevard Viaduct with its left wing at nearly 90 degrees of bank angle at about 10:55L (02:55Z) and impacted the water of the Keelung River near the Nankang Software Park coming to rest inverted, about 2.9nm from the end of runway 10"
Someone correct me if they think I'm right out to the lunch, but in this video you can pretty much see the exact moment the left wing decides to drop (Vmc or Vsse point?) and it's pretty much all over from there:
Also if it was indeed an engine failure, this should not be an issue for an aircraft like this, as they are designed to be able to continue to fly safely and return for a landing on one engine. Will be interesting to see what happened here and if there are other contributing factors (auto-feather failure? overweight? pilot error?) that led to this.
It is hard to tell but almost looks like dual engine failure.
Yeah it can glide, but if you lose both engines that low you run out of altitude really fast and trying to make any turns will bleed that airspeed and lead to a stall on the upper wing pretty fast.
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Don't think they were really going fast enough to generate enough lift to glide anywhere safe. I imagine the pilot took the hard bank to ditch it into the river as opposed to a level landing into a building. Probably saved a good few lives.
That "hard bank" was most likely not pilot initiated, that is the left wing stalling and dropping hard.
When the plane is barely clearing that building you see some left bank occurring, most likely that was initiated by the pilot flying, but with the nose up the airspeed was probably bleeding off fast and then you see the wing stall and drop down.
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