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China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport serving Taipei, Taiwan, to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.〔China Airlines is based in Taiwan. Air China is the standard-bearer for the People's Republic of China.〕 On 26 April 1994, the Airbus A300B4-622R was completing a routine flight and approach, when, just before landing at Nagoya Airport, the First Officer inadvertently pressed the Takeoff/Go-around button (also known as a TO/GA) which raises the throttle position to the same as take offs and go-arounds. Pilot Wang Lo-chi () and copilot Chuang Meng-jung ()〔Landers, Peter. (1 May 1994) ("It's over, it's over'/Recorder details cockpit panic aboard doomed plane" ) ((Archive )). Associated Press, ''Houston Chronicle'' p.A30. (''web.archive.org''). Retrieved on 25 April 2013.〕〔"(華航名古屋空難 四人獲不起訴 )." ''Liberty Times''. Tuesday 10 April 2001 (90th year of the Republic, 中華民國90年4月10日 星期二). Retrieved on 25 July 2012.〕 attempted to correct the situation by manually reducing the throttles and pushing the yoke downwards. The autopilot then acted against these inputs (as it is programmed to do when the TO/GA button is activated), causing the nose to pitch up sharply. This nose-high attitude, combined with decreasing airspeed due to insufficient thrust, resulted in an aerodynamic stall of the aircraft. With insufficient altitude to recover from this condition, the subsequent crash killed 264 (15 crew and 249 passengers) of the 271 (15 crew and 256 passengers) people aboard. All passengers who survived the accident were seated in rows 7 through 15. The crash, which destroyed the aircraft (delivered less than 3 years earlier in 1991), was attributed to crew error for their failure to correct the controls as well as the airspeed. To date, the accident remains the deadliest accident in the history of China Airlines, and the second-deadliest aviation accident on Japanese soil, behind Japan Airlines Flight 123.〔Pollack, Andrew. "( 261 Die When a Flight From Taiwan Crashes in Japan )." ''The New York Times''. 27 April 1994, Retrieved on 17 June 2011.〕 It is also the third-deadliest aviation accident or incident involving an Airbus A300, after Iran Air Flight 655 and later American Airlines Flight 587. ==Passengers== Most of the passengers were Taiwanese and Japanese; 153 Japanese and 101 non-Japanese were on the flight.〔Thurber, David. "(261 die in crash of China Airlines Airbus in Japan )." ''Associated Press'' at ''Houston Chronicle''. Wednesday 27 April 1994. A14. Retrieved on 14 June 2009.〕 Most of the Japanese passengers were returning from package tours. An official from the airline said that 63 of the passengers were Taiwanese.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「China Airlines Flight 140」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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