Cause of TransAsia Crash Determined

News coming down as Investigators Determine Cause of TransAsia Plane Crash which happened on Wednesday. The death toll is so far confirmed at 35 with 15 survivors.

Investigators Determine Cause of TransAsia Plane Crash to be engine failure, specifically failing to give enough thrust during the crash. It’s reported the right engine went into “idle” mode but according to Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council, it didn’t “flame out” as the pilot initially believed. It was that belief that had the pilot shutting down the left engine manually, only to be unable to restart the engines after:

“Thomas Wang, director of Aviation Safety Council, says it’s unclear why the second engine was shut down. The plane involved in the crash is able to function with just one engine running.”

Investigators Determine Cause of TransAsia Plane Crash and there always seems a sad and an eerie mystery around these Asian airline tragedies. 58 passengers and crew were on board, sources say “investigators don’t expect to find anymore bodies because of murky water.” (Yikes). The aircraft for flight ATR 72-600 had “lurched nose-up between buildings, clipped an overpass and a taxi before it plummeted into a river” in Taiwan.”

A final report is reported to conclude between three and six months from now though Investigators Determine Cause of TransAsia Plane Crash at this stage. Details still developing.

RIP.

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