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TAIWAN AIRPLANE CRASH – TransAsia Airplane Crashes Into River In Taiwan (FULL DASHCAM FOOTAGE) 2/4/2015
TAIWAN AIRPLANE CRASH – TransAsia Airplane Crashes Into River In Taiwan (FULL DASHCAM FOOTAGE) 2/4/2015
A plane carrying mostly Chinese tourists has crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 23 people.
Dramatic video footage emerged showing the TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as it came down shortly after take-off from a Taipei airport. The plane, carrying 58 people, has broken up and the fuselage is lying half-submerged in the Keelung River. Rescue efforts are ongoing. At least 15 people are believed to have survived, with 20 still missing. Television footage showed some passengers wading clear of the sunken wreckage and a toddler being pulled out alive by rescuers.
The dramatic moment a toddler was rescued from the sunken wreckage of the jet Emergency teams have cut the plane open to gain access, attempting to reach the remaining passengers trapped in the front section of the fuselage.
Mr Wu said the fire department had requested heavy cranes to pull the body of the plane out of the water. The ATR-72 turbo-prop plane had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was heading to the Kinmen islands, just off the coast of the south-eastern Chinese city of Xiamen.
It is the second TransAsia ATR-72 to crash in seven months, following an accident last July which killed 48 people and injured 15.
The final communication from the pilots to air traffic control was “Mayday, mayday, engine flame out”, according to a recording played on local media. The recording was not immediately verified by aviation officials.
Yet again, we are looking at shocking pictures of a plane crash. You’d be forgiven for thinking that flying is getting more dangerous, but it’s not. In fact, when you look at the number of crashes and fatalities compared to the huge number of people flying today, we are in a golden era of aircraft safety.
According to safety analysts Ascend, 2014 was narrowly the safest year ever, with one fatal accident per 2.38 million flights, compared to every 1.91 million flights in 2013. That does not include the loss of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, where 298 people died, which they count as a war loss rather than an accident.
Nearly a thousand people died in 2014, which is 700 more than the year before. Horrible numbers but compare that to the worst year, 1972, when 2,370 passengers were killed, and there was far less flying then, maybe a quarter of what there is today.
TV footage showed rescuers standing on the tail section of the broken wreckage trying to pull passengers out of the plane with ropes. The majority of the plane, including the front section of the fuselage and the wings, appeared to be underwater.
The plane’s flight data recorders, also known as black boxes, have been recovered. A TransAsia Airways (6702.TW) plane with 58 passengers and crew on board careered into a river shortly after taking off from a downtown Taipei airport on Wednesday, killing 23 people and leaving 20 missing, officials said.
Dramatic pictures taken by a motorist and posted on Twitter showed the plane careening over the motorway soon after the turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft took off in apparently clear weather on a domestic flight for the island of Kinmen.
Emergency rescue officials crowded around the partially submerged fuselage of flight GE235, lying on its side in the river, trying to help those on board. The plane missed apartment buildings by metres, though it was not clear if that was luck or whether the pilot was aiming for the river. Footage showed a van skidding to a halt on the damaged overpass after barely missing the plane’s wing, with small pieces of the aircraft scattered along the road.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said his government had offered Taiwan any help necessary following the crash. “MAYDAY MAYDAY” Enjoy!!!
On March 8 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China. The aircraft was carrying 239 passengers and crew members from 15 nations. Even with a multinational search effort, the plane has never been found.
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