Overseas Network 2015-02-04 12:26:56
Fuxing passenger aircraft wings vertically down to the viaduct, and then crashed into the Keelung River.
Overseas Network, February 4 According to Taiwan's "East Sen News Cloud", a fuselage number B22816 of Taiwan's Fuxing Airlines flight number B22816, from Songshan to Kinmen, was reported on the morning of the 4th that it crashed into the Keelung River near the Economic and Trade 2nd Road, Nangang District. The passenger plane crashed into the viaduct for unknown reasons and then landed immediately, and the fuselage was broken. The latest news said that the accident has caused 9 people to show no signs of life, 18 people were injured, 22 people were rescued, and 31 people are missing. The search and rescue are still in progress.
Fuxing Airlines took off at 10:45 this morning to Kinmen ATR72 (number B22816). In less than 5 minutes, it crashed into the Nanyang Bridge in Xizhi District (the junction of Taipei City and New Taipei City) for unknown reasons. The fuselage was broken and fell into the Keelung River. The plane was now on the water surface and did not catch fire. The location was on the Economic and Trade Road of Nangang District, Beishi City. 18 people were known to be injured and were seriously injured. Most of the injured were head injuries. There were 53 passengers (including two children) and 5 crew members on board. This model is ATR72, and the machine age is only one year.
According to Xinhua News Agency's "Exclusive China Report" on Weibo, it has received a notice from the Taiwan Travel Association that there were 31 mainland passengers on the plane.
Taiwan's "Civil Aviation Administration" Lin Zhiming came to hold a press conference at 12:34, saying that two people died before the hospital. He said that the crashed aircraft is very new, less than a year ago, it is an ATR600 model, which is different from the Penghu 500 model last year and is the latest model. Lirong is also used in the same type of flight. Currently, we know that the weather conditions in the morning are OK. Among the crew members, they are driving for 14,000 hours and the co-pilot is 4,000 hours. The details are investigated by the Fei'an Accident Association.
Currently search and rescue situation, 58 people on board, 9 showed no signs of life, 18 were injured, 22 were rescued, and 31 were missing. The search and rescue is still in progress.
New Taipei and Taipei City are sending people to rescue. At present, 10 passengers are expected to be waiting for assistance on planes floating on the water. Several children are among them. Rescue personnel send rubber boats to approach the fuselage and rescue the people by relay. Some passengers also swim ashore on their own.
According to witnesses at the nearby Zhongshan High School, he saw that the plane had started flying sideways a long time ago, very close to the ground, and then fell directly to the river. It seems to be caused by the loss of motivation, and the real reason remains to be investigated by the Civil Aviation Administration.
A staff member of the Taipei MRT East Engineering Department who works near
said that he suddenly heard a loud bang at that time. Because the weather was rainy, it was the beginning of spring and he thought it was spring thunder. Someone looked outside and saw that it was a plane falling into the river, which made him sweat. There was also a taxi at the scene that was affected, the windshield was completely broken, the roof also had signs of impact, and the vehicle was almost completely destroyed. After the
incident was reported, the Fuxing Airlines website "hangs up". When you click in, it was blank and the web page could not be displayed. Taiwanese media reporter browsed the Fuxing official website at 11:46 in the morning, and the website has returned to normal.
This disaster relief operation was unified in command of Taipei City. A total of 8 boats were sent on the river surface. Rescue personnel had destroyed the equipment and entered the interior to search for the people waiting for assistance in the cabin.
Fuxing Airlines was only 19:00 pm on July 23 last year, Flight 222, also ATR72, was flying from Kaohsiung Xiaogang Airport to Penghu Magong Airport. It was suspected that Typhoon Medham did not land smoothly, and the reflight failed. It fell in Xixi Village, Huxi Township, Penghu County, and caught fire, killing 48 people on board and seriously injuring 10 people. In addition, 11 private houses were affected and 5 people were slightly injured.
