Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/09
By: Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, July 9 (CNA) All three people who were on a trainer aircraft that went missing
Clark Lin (林俊良)
Monday afternoon were rescued about an hour after the accident, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said.
Two flight trainees and an instructor on the Diamond Aircraft DA40NG plane, which belongs to the Taitung-based Apex Flight Academy, were rescued at 6:22 p.m., said Clark Lin (林俊良), director of the CAA’s Flight Standards Division.
The aircraft, which took off from Taitung Airport at 4:20 p.m. en route to Kaohsiung for a cross-country training, lost contact with flight controllers at 5:07 p.m. while flying over the sea about 11 nautical miles southwest of Kaohsiung International Airport, Lin said.
A CAA mission control center quickly informed nearby airports, the National Airborne Service Corps, the Coast Guard Administration and other groups to put together a rescue team, he said. [FULL STORY]
