Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/30
By: Wang Shu-fen, Wei Shu and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, June 30 (CNA) Pilot error is to blame for a TransAsia Airways plane crash in Taipei last year, according to a final report released Thursday by Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council (ASC).

Accident investigators have pinpointed the two TransAsia flight GE235 pilots’ failure to follow flight procedure and a series of mistakes made due to ineffective communication between the two pilots as the main cause of the aviation accident that killed 43 people.

Flight GE 235 crashed into the Keelung River on Feb. 4, 2015 less than three minutes after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, which is located some 5.4 km to the west of the crash site.

The flight, operated with a 10-month-old ATR 72-600 aircraft, was going from Taipei to the outlying island of Kinmen with 53 passengers and a five-member crew on board. There were 15 survivors.     [FULL  STORY]