Reports: TransAsia flight pilots may have shut wrong engine
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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