Want China Times, CNA 2015-02-06
Data from the two black boxes retrieved from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a river in Taipei showed that both of the turboprop aircraft's engines failed before the crash, the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) said Friday.
Wang Hsing-chung during a press conference on the crash in Taipei, Feb. 6. (Photo/CNA) |
Data from the two black boxes retrieved from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a river in Taipei showed that both of the turboprop aircraft's engines failed before the crash, the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) said Friday.
Neither
engine had any power during the last minute and 7 seconds before the aircraft
plunged into the Keelung River, ASC managing director Wang Hsing-chung said at
a news conference in Taipei.
A warning
first went off for engine No. 2 when the plane reached an altitude of about
1,200 feet, according to the flight data recorder, he said.
Forty-six
seconds later, power to engine No. 1 was cut off and then turned back on a full
56 seconds after that, just six seconds before the plane hit the ground, Wang
said in presenting the timeline of what happened.
He did not
give any explanation for why engine No. 1 was turned off.
TransAsia
Airways flight 235 crashed three minutes and 23 seconds after getting clearance
at 10:51:13 to take off Wednesday morning from Songshan Airport in northern
Taipei en route to Kinmen.
Fifteen of
the 58 people on board survived the accident while 35 have been confirmed dead
and another eight remain unaccounted for.
The
ATR72-600 aircraft was less than a year old but had experienced engine problems
before.
Representatives
from the French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau, the
Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the plane's manufacturer ATR and engine
manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada in Taiwan also attended the press
conference.
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