Insane footage of TransAsia plane crash

[RealCool Daddio]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/taiwan-plane-crash-lands-in-river


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[Eddie Coyle]

      CNN just played it about 5 times in a row. Un-fucking-real.

[Up All Night]

TransAsia Cuts 122 Flights as Taiwan Orders ATR Pilot Tests

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-08/transasia-cuts-122-flights-as-taiwan-orders-atr-pilot-tests

All 71 of TransAsia’s ATR pilots must undergo training and oral and written tests on emergency procedures within the next four days, CAA Director-General Tim Lin said Friday at a news conference. Pilots, who will still be able to fly even if they haven’t yet taken the tests, will later have to practice in simulators, Lin said.

While data from Flight 235 show the right engine was operating normally, an engine warning went off and the propeller was automatically “feathered,” a setting that turns the blades so they’re parallel to the airflow to reduce drag, Thomas Wang, managing director of the Aviation Safety Council said Friday.

Soon after, the other engine, the left engine, had its propeller setting manually reduced before the fuel flow was cut off, Wang said. Investigators aren’t yet able to explain the warnings, engine operations or the crew’s actions, Wang said.

[Yorkshire pud]

TransAsia Cuts 122 Flights as Taiwan Orders ATR Pilot Tests

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-08/transasia-cuts-122-flights-as-taiwan-orders-atr-pilot-tests

All 71 of TransAsia’s ATR pilots must undergo training and oral and written tests on emergency procedures within the next four days, CAA Director-General Tim Lin said Friday at a news conference. Pilots, who will still be able to fly even if they haven’t yet taken the tests, will later have to practice in simulators, Lin said.

While data from Flight 235 show the right engine was operating normally, an engine warning went off and the propeller was automatically “feathered,” a setting that turns the blades so they’re parallel to the airflow to reduce drag, Thomas Wang, managing director of the Aviation Safety Council said Friday.

Soon after, the other engine, the left engine, had its propeller setting manually reduced before the fuel flow was cut off, Wang said. Investigators aren’t yet able to explain the warnings, engine operations or the crew’s actions, Wang said.

Yeah, that would cause it to stall. It looked like it from the footage that it had stalled.