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TransAsia Airways Flight 235 (GE235/TNA235) was a domestic flight that crashed into the Keelung River on 2015, shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, to the west. The TransAsia Airways flight, operated with a ten-month-old ATR 72-600 aircraft, was flying from Taipei to Kinmen (Quemoy), a Taiwanese island off the coast of mainland Fujian, with 53 passengers and five crew on board. There were 15 survivors. Two minutes after takeoff, the pilots reported an engine flameout. Flight 235 climbed to a maximum height of , then descended. The other, working engine was then shut down mistakenly.〔〔 Immediately before crashing into the river, it banked sharply left and clipped a taxi travelling west on the Huandong Viaduct, then the viaduct itself, with its left wing. Flight 235 was the second fatal accident involving a TransAsia Airways ATR aircraft within seven months. Flight 222 crashed on 2014, killing 48 of the 58 on board. ==Flight== Flight 235 departed Taipei Songshan Airport at Taiwan time , for its destination of Kinmen Airport, with 53 passengers and five crew members on board. It climbed to an altitude of and then began descending until it crashed. The last pilot communication to air traffic control was: "Mayday, mayday, engine flameout." At 10:54, the aircraft crashed into the Keelung River, on the border of Nangang District of Taipei and Xizhi District of New Taipei. The crash was recorded by the dashcams in several cars travelling west along the elevated Huandong Viaduct next to the river. The aircraft, flying level, first cleared an apartment building. Then it rolled sharply, at nearly a 90-degree bank angle, left wing down. As the aircraft flew low over the elevated viaduct, its left wingtip struck the front of a taxi travelling west on the viaduct, and the outboard section of the wing was torn off when it struck the concrete guardrail at the edge of the viaduct.〔〔 The aircraft continued its roll and impacted the water upside down, breaking into two main pieces. Two people in the taxi were injured.〔 At the time of the accident, no adverse weather phenomena were observed. At , the cloud base at Songshan was about , the visibility was unlimited, and a light breeze was blowing from the east at . The temperature was .〔 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「TransAsia Airways Flight 235」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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