Pesawat terhempas di Taiwan: 48 terbunuh, 10 terselamat
AFP |Kemas kini:Julai 24, 2014
TAIPEI: 48 maut dan sepuluh terselamat apabila pesawat TransAsia Airways penerbangan GE222 yang membawa 58 penumpang termasuk anak kapal terhempas di atas sebuah rumah berhampiran lapangan terbang Magong di Pulau Penghu, Taiwan pada Rabu.
Menurut laporan AFP, saksi dan media tempatan berkata pesawat terbabit terhempas ekoran cuaca buruk setelah beberapa kali cuba membuat pendaratan.
Pesawat jenis ATR 72-500 dengan dwi kipas turbo itu sedang dalam perjalanan dari bandar barat daya Kaohsiung menuju ke kepualauan terbabit setelah ditunda kerana cuaca buruk ekoran Taufan Matmo yang membadai Taiwan.
"Kami telah menemui 42 mayat dan beberapa cebisan bahagian badan,” ujar seorang pegawai bernama Tsai dari jabatan bomba daerah terbabit kepada AFP.
"Terdapat 58 orang di dalam pesawat termasuk empat anak kapal, empat kanak-kanak dan sehingga kini, mengikut maklumat yang ada, 12 cedera dan telah dihantar ke hospital manakala 46 masih hilang,” menurut Menteri Pengangkutan Yeh Kuang-shih yang bercakap kepada pemberita pada awal kejadian.
Tambah Yeh, dua warganegara Perancis dilaporkan berada di dalam pesawat dan kedutaan de facto Perancis telah pun dimaklumkan.
Kementerian Luar Perancis mengesahkan dua rakyatnya yang terbunuh adalah pelajar jurusan perubatan.
TransAsia pula dalam satu kenyataan berkata, mereka akan membayar pampasan sebanyak Tw$1 juta (RM105,620) kepada keluarga mangsa yang terbunuh manakala Tw$200,000 (RM21,124) kepada mangsa yang cedera.
Pesawat TransAsia mendarat cemas di Taiwan, 51 Ternunuh dan 7 penumpang melecur
TAIPEI: Sebuah pesawat TransAsia dari Kaohsiung ke Penghu melakukan pendaratan cemas berhampiran Lapangan Terbang Magong, menyebabkan 51 orang penumpang terbunuh dan tujuh melecur.
Media Taiwan melaporkan pesawat penerbangan domestik itu terhempas membunuh atau mencederakan sekurang-kurangnya 40 penumpang.
Tiada maklumat lain dilaporkan setakat ini.
Xinhua melaporkan kemalangan itu berlaku di wilayah Penghu.
China Xinhua News
Update: Of 58 onboard, 51 dead & 7 injured in emergency landing of Taiwan's TransAsia Airways plane (file photo)
51 dead, 8 injured in Penghu plane crash: reports
Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2014-07-23 08:13 PM
Central News Agency
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – As many as 51 passengers of a TransAsia Airways flight died as it made an emergency landing in Penghu Wednesday evening, officials said.
Over the course of the evening, the number of casualties repeatedly changed, varying also from cable station to cable station. The Penghu Fire Department chief was quoted as saying 51 people died, but later news station TVBS said only one passenger had been confirmed as dead, with eleven saved and the fate of 46 still unclear.
Flight GE 222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew members on a flight from Kaohsiung to Makung during stormy weather in the wake of Typhoon Matmo.
The ATR-72 aircraft had been scheduled to leave Kaohsiung at 4 p.m. but departed at 5:43 p.m. because of the poor weather. The pilot was reportedly asked to wait until 7:06 p.m. before being allowed to land.
A first attempt at landing reportedly failed, and the pilot then made a request to make a second try, reports said. Shortly later, the control tower lost contact with the flight, reports said.
The plane reportedly smashed hard into the ground in the township of Huhsi, causing a fire involving two homes. Online pictures showed a heavily damaged house and wreckage from the plane.
There was no immediate information about what caused the pilot’s change of plans and how the passengers were injured, though media reports spoke of a fire and of the injured suffering burns. They were taken to the military Tri-Service General Hospital in Makung, reports said, with cable stations reporting that one person showed no signs of life upon arrival.
The pilot was identified by the media as 60-year-old Lee Yi-liang and his co-pilot as Chiang Kuan-hsing, 39, but their fate was not immediately known.
First suspicions hinted that the accident might be linked to Typhoon Matmo, which passed over Taiwan and Penghu earlier in the day, bringing strong winds and heavy rains in its wake.
Online messages posted by residents spoke of a house on fire, with the blaze raging so hard that the rain failed to extinguish it.
Makung Airport was closed down after the incident, while in Taipei, Premier Jiang Yi-huah was preparing a visit to the Civil Aeronautics Administration, reports said.
Over the past 13 years, TransAsia Airways recorded eight accidents, including six with the French-Italian ATR-72, the Chinese-language Apple Daily wrote.
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