Taipei Times
Date: Sep 25, 2019
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

The Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) plans to spend another year reviewing data it hopes

will identify the cause of the Puyuma Express derailment on Oct. 21 last year, and it plans to conduct an accident simulation once it has completed its data collection.

Since the board was established two months ago, it has been reviewing the Executive Yuan’s accident investigation report, as stipulated by a Legislative Yuan resolution, TTSB Chairman Young Hong-tsu (楊宏智) said.

That report covered railway track alignment, the speed at which the train derailed and whether the train’s tilting device was functioning normally at the time, and it said that the train did not encounter any foreign objects, had an unreliable power output and was operating with a malfunctioned pump compressor, he said.

The board has decided that it should examine evidence in six more categories, in accordance with the Transportation Occurrence Investigation Act (運輸事故調查法), Young said.
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