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Captain of TransAsia Flight 235 shut off working engine - chairman - 07-02-2015
(CNN)"Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle."
These are the words of the captain of TransAsia Airways Flight GE235, eight seconds before the plane clipped a bridge and plunged into a Taiwanese river mere minutes after takeoff, killing 43 people on board.
The latest report by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council into the February crash confirms that the captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost power.
Re: Captain of TransAsia Flight 235 shut off working engine - chairman - 07-02-2015
The plane is designed to be able to be flown on one engine.
The report also showed that the captain had failed simulator training less than a year earlier, partly because he had demonstrated a lack of knowledge of how to respond to engine flameout at takeoff.
The aircraft, which was less than a year old, flew perilously between buildings and clipped a bridge and a taxi before crashing into the shallow Keelung River in Taiwan's capital, Taipei.
Fifteen of the 58 people on board the flight, all mainland Chinese or from Taiwan, survived.
The plane's entire cockpit crew was killed in the crash, authorities said.
Re: Captain of TransAsia Flight 235 shut off working engine - ramesh - 07-03-2015
Was Chin behind the wheels of the plane ? Oriental drivers
