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Topic: BREAKING: Taiwanese news agency: Plane crashes in emergency landing, killing 40 (Read 865 times)

DrG
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What is going on with planes now a days. We went years with little to no news about plane crashes maybe like 1 or 2 major crashes a year. Now it feels like there is a plane problem like every other week. There has to be a lot of looking into plane upgrades on safety and emergency procedures.

Turboprop, missed approach, 2 attempt, typhoon passing by - that's a pretty bad combination. There could be mechanical failure, pilot error, miscommunication with the tower, etc - but I would pin this one of the weather being the overriding factor on top of tragic pilot judgement.
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BINGO! BOUNTY MANAGEMENT
What is going on with planes now a days. We went years with little to no news about plane crashes maybe like 1 or 2 major crashes a year. Now it feels like there is a plane problem like every other week. There has to be a lot of looking into plane upgrades on safety and emergency procedures.
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Decentralized thinking
sr. member
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it's been a crazy few years, hasn't it? or maybe the world is always going at that frenetic pace, i don't know anymore.
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Another plane crash? There seems to be a lot of them these days. Sad

I think this has to do with crony type system where the whole company is being run by incompetent staff.

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// Seems as a Putin's fault again.

Is there any official version?
I don't think putin has been blamed for this one. It appears this is more of an accident.
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Tragedy after tragedy. Makes you almost not what to read the news of the day, Prayers to the people of Taiwan and any other Nationals on this flight.
legendary
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// Seems as a Putin's fault again.

Is there any official version?
DrG
legendary
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The death toll is not confirmed yet.  The presumed initially that 52 had died onboard, now they are stating that they are stuck in the wreckage.  Kind of hard to tell what is going on with a typhoon passing overhead though.
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To the OP, it would be nice if you brought a link for the rest of us to check out rather than just making a thread w/ an unsubstantiated claim.

Here you go:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28448763
It was a ATR 72 turboprop aircraft flying through tropical typhoon "Matmo".
legendary
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To the OP, it would be nice if you brought a link for the rest of us to check out rather than just making a thread w/ an unsubstantiated claim.
legendary
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Some genius decided to fly a turboprop in the middle of a category 7 typhoon
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Looks like this one was a smaller turboprop plane rather than the bigger Boeing or Airbus jet type.
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Another plane crash? There seems to be a lot of them these days. Sad
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – More than 40 people were killed in a plane crash in Taiwan on Wednesday, July 23, officials said.

Authorities said the plane, carrying 58 people including 4 crew, crashed near the airport on the outlying Penghu island.

"Fifty-one people are feared dead and 7 people injured," Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration Shen Chi told reporters, but the local fire chief put the death toll at 45.
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