The pilot of a passenger plane that crashed into a river in Taiwan killing 43 people shut down the plane’s only working engine after the other failed, a new report confirmed today.<\/p>\n
TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 plunged shortly after take-off from Taipei’s Songshan airport in February with 53 passengers and five crew on board. Only 15 people survived.<\/p>\n
Seconds before the crash the pilot said: “Wow, pulled back wrong throttle” the report from Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council revealed, from words recorded on a black box.<\/p>\n
That led the plane’s one working engine to fail after the other had already lost power, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Dramatic car dashcam images showed the plane hitting an elevated road as it banked steeply away from buildings before crashing into the Keeling River.<\/p>\n
Initial reports from the black boxes found the plane’s right engine had “flamed out” about two minutes after take-off while the left engine was then shut down manually by the crew for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n
Today’s report confirmed that one engine had failed and was no longer delivering power to the aircraft.<\/p>\n
One of the three pilots in the cockpit then pulled back the throttle of the other engine, the report said, causing it to also lose power.<\/p>\n
Investigators said that with both engines shut off the plane began a descent and was unable to recover.<\/p>\n
“Why the pilot did this, we don’t know. That’s the main task for our (final) analysis report,” said Thomas Wang, head of the aviation body.<\/p>\n
The draft of that report is due out in November with the final report expected in April 2016.<\/p>\n
Today’s evidence was described as a “factual report” giving more detail about the crash, but not attributing responsibility or drawing final conclusions about the cause.<\/p>\n
Taiwan’s aviation regulator ordered TransAsia pilots to take an oral test on basic operating and emergency procedures for the French-made aircraft after the initial findings pointed to pilot error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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