Taiwan Plane Crash: Passenger Jet Hits Bridge (and car)

[yuiyoshida]

damn!

[MrMickeysMom]

1. Holy crap!

The fact that it was caught this way by (phone camera) is another "holy crap!"!

All survived?

[yuiyoshida]

2. TransAsia plane crashes in Taiwan river - rolling coverage More than 20 people are reported killed

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


http://asiancorrespondent.com/130342/taiwan-flight-ge325-crash-live/

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Thank you, yuiyoshida...

I read further that at least 16 people died during that take-off. Awful, but I think it could have been even worse.

[yuiyoshida]

19. Taiwanese paper is reporting 23

not sure if that is accurate.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Jesus! In the first clip, it appear that ithe plane hit the car in front of them!!!!

[yuiyoshida]

5. Yes it did...

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The wing seemed to clip that car.. !


Edited to add:
The driver of the clipped taxi cab “has been sent to a local hospital”, an assistant to the Crown Taxi Company’s general manager who identified himself as Mr Yang told the Guardian. “He has head injury and concussion, but all of his vital signs are stable.” Yang added that the company planned to raise the topic of compensation with TransAsia Airways at a later date.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/taiwan-plane-crash-lands-in-river

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Fortnuately, in the next clip in the series, we see at leat 1 person get out of that same car!

I hope he was the only occupant!

Thanks for sharing these clips yuiyoshida - I hope the Taiwanese NTSB can make use of them to find out what happened...

[yuiyoshida]

7. I WOULD love for someone to translate

what that woman said in the second video. I don't speak Mandarin, maybe someone does.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. I would love to hear a translation of that too...

You could almost guess what she said (repeatedly)...

Edit - although this is a bit silly, looking at the written transliterations of the term I'm guessing, I think this IS what she was saying!

[yuiyoshida]

11. close but I don't think thats it...

I have a pretty good ear, and they sound slightly different. I know we have some Mandarin speakers on DU.. would love to know what she is saying.

[rurallib]

14. You may want to post a request for a Mandarin speaker on GD

more people may see it there than would look at this video.

Although I am guessing it is some equivalent of "Holy Crap, O My {deity}" or something like that

[yuiyoshida]

18. I posted in the Asian group

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so far no responses.


UPDATE; found this:

Lady Passenger [in Mandarin]: "OMG OMG OMG, that's so scary ! OMG, a plane ! OMG, OMG ... huh OMG !"

"天啊，天啊，天啊， 好可怕哦！天啊，飞机吔！天啊，我的天啊 ... 丷天啊!"
⇒ 天啊 = literally "Oh Sky", equivalent to OMG

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Really surprised that couple did not stop to help!

[yuiyoshida]

13. Not sure they could help other than using a cellphone

To call the equivalent of what would be 911 in Taipei. The Plane laned in the river and there seems no place to stop and run down and rescue people. This video shows how high up that ramp is in comparison to the river. In this video you can already see rescue people forming already.

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. I meant that they didn't appear to check on the vehicle that was hit. They drove past it. Of course

helping with the river rescue would take a lot more courage, and skill.

Reminded me of the Flight 90 crash in Washington years ago and the courageous person who jumped in to try to help (Roger Olian, not Lennie Skutnik):

[underpants]

10. I have absolutely no idea how anyone survived that

[yuiyoshida]

12. The third video,..

took them absolutely forever to get people out of there... Like opening a botched can of sardines.

[progressoid]

16. Wow, that first video is stunning.

I guess the passengers are "lucky" they crashed in shallow water?

[dhill926]

17. I fly a lot….

this is terrifying. Nightmarish…amazed there were any survivors...

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Turboprop.

I suppose technically it's a jet driving a propeller, but not normally called a 'Jet'. It's a turboprop.


Holy shit, the ubiquitousness of dash cams in foreign countries. Four cars captured that? Crazy!

[valerief]

21. With technology, Americans are like Flintstones in a Jetsons world. nt

[Major Nikon]

22. Turboprops are also known as jetprops

If you want to get technical, modern airliner engines are actually turbofans. A prop driven by a jet propulsion engine is a turboprop or a jetprop. Both types use jet engines and both burn jet fuel. Rockets are also powered by jet engines.

[Gumboot]

23. So, let me get this straight...

The crew reports one engine has 'flamed out'. They shut that engine down, and should then have been able to fly the plane safely on its one remaining engine to the nearest airport, and land without further incident.

But the plane evidently lost power and speed, eventually stalling and crashing into the river.

I've been wondering all day if the crew accidentally shut down the wrong engine...

I was thinking of the infamous Kegworth crash, back in January 1989. An engine failed, the crew shut down the wrong engine, and the plane crash-landed on a highway embankment, just short of the runway.