TransAsia Plane Crash

[xxMATTGxx]

Oh wow, that's amazing! Lucky that so few died as it looks like a pretty spectacular crash. How did it happen though?

They declared a Mayday before and claimed an engine flameout, looks like an issue with one of the engines or both and caused them to stall due to very low airspeed. Although a full investigation report should tell us the full details as the plane should be able to still fly on one engine.

[xxMATTGxx]

Update:

Taiwan Aviation Safety Council today published Flight Data Recorder data from flight ‪#‎GE235‬. It shows that there was an engine flameout on engine #2 about 35 seconds after take off. But according to the Flight Data Recorder data it looks like pilots turned engine #1 off instead, which made that flight #GE235 lost all power and started to loose speed. In order to avoid stall pilots started to descend, made a mayday call and later tried to restart one of the engines. Before they managed to get the engine back the aircraft crashed.

[wixard]

that is so unbelievably unfortunate

RIP to all

[Matt]

Do we know if the pilots survived? I know I heard a report saying the people at the back of the plane had a much higher chance of surviving than the people towards/at the front of the aircraft (as it went nose first into the river?).