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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2015, 10:01:04 AM »
This is turning into a mess.

Death count up.

New footage.

'Bridge planned' in TransAsia Airways plane rescue effort:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125184

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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2015, 10:05:14 AM »
Rescue footage:

toddler rescued from river:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31132227


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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2015, 10:32:37 AM »
That's what, the fourth or fifth ATR72 TransAsia has crashed?
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2015, 10:51:48 AM »
what the diddly!!!!!!
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2015, 10:58:35 AM »
That's what, the fourth or fifth ATR72 TransAsia has crashed?

I do not know the number for that, but here is a BBC piece on Is flying getting more dangerous?  Kind of interesting.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31132573

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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2015, 11:10:21 AM »
More people are flying more often.
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2015, 11:17:49 AM »
Wiki lists 15 accidents with the ATR 72. Of those four were TransAsia flights. All with fatalities.
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2015, 11:43:02 AM »
    Couldn't really tell but looked like left engine was not rotating like right one.  :pray
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2015, 03:02:50 PM »
   Couldn't really tell but looked like left engine was not rotating like right one.  :pray
Keen eye Slate - buddy of mine at work who is a former Air Force mechanic noticed the same thing when we watched it at my desk this morning and that he stalled it right out in an attempt to get it to the river rather than into the apartment buildings.
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2015, 03:41:07 PM »
 What a job missing all that concrete and hitting the river.

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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2015, 03:46:42 PM »
Suspiciously many stall related crashes with the ATR.
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2015, 04:01:19 PM »
Acording to liveatc the pilot said "mayday, engine flameout" on the radio and as noted it looks like the left engine are out. Most likely they tried to reach the river but stalled above the bridge. But an engine failure should not bring the plane down like this. Either the pilots made some errors and failed to fly the plane on one engine or they might have lost power on both engines.
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Re: Footage of TransAsia Airway plane crash in Taipei
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2015, 04:30:52 PM »
Bad fuel perhaps.
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