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Reports: TransAsia flight pilots may have shut wrong engine

| | Feb 07, 2015, at 05:28 pm
Hong Kong, Feb 7 (IBNS): A finding by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council revealed that twin-propeller plane that crashed in Taiwan's capital killing at least 35 people may have reacted to a stalled-engine alarm by shutting down the wrong engine, media reports said.

It suggested that the plane’s No. 2 engine stopped just as power to the No. 1 engine was shut down.

Based on cockpit voice and flight data recorders it was learnt that the pilots had been discussing shutting down the plane’s wrong engine.

TransAsia Airways Flight 235 had departed from the Taipei airport a few minutes before 11 am on Wednesday plunged into the Keelung River.

As many as 35 passengers, including both pilots, of the 58 people on the flight which was bound for Kinmen were confirmed to have died. Reports said eight people were still unaccounted for Friday.

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