A TransAsia ATR crashed in Taipei after failing to gain altitude on deaprture.

 

The aeroplance crashed into a river after clipping a bridge.

 

Video:

 

http://youtu.be/6BIsUCQEv_8

 

Wow! It looks like the wing clipped that van/bus in front of the dash cam.

Slightly better quality  http://www.9news.com.au

 

Only 2 deaths reported so far

Just read of at least 12 fatalities, very sad.

That's Songshan Airport, a local airport which should really be closed due to the fact that the city has grown around it at this stage.

An accident waiting to happen if you ask me.

I've visited Taipei a few times in 2004 and even then,you could drive right around it and still be in the city.

It could have been much worse if a larger aircraft had been involved.

It looks like to me that the pilot in the video did something heroic.   He rolled to the left to avoid hitting the building which would have killed everyone most likely.  He saved some of passengers lives.   In the photograph stills it looks like one of the engines is not doing its job right.  The prop is not spinning nearly as fast as the other.   Looks like he was stalled out.   I am interested to see what the investigation uncovers.  

Very harrowing footage

It looks more like they lost control and rolled into the failed engine.

Agree on the stall.  Dropped off on the left wing.  Don't think that was intentional.  Would have been better if he dumped the nose and went for the river.  Still, remarkable and delighted that there were survivors.

The ATR isn't very user friendly depending on when and how the engine failed. I remember the memory item being a page long for one procedure and half a page in another procedure. I absolutely hated the QRH. This is very sad news. My prayers go out to them.

Agree on the stall. Dropped off on the left wing. Don't think that was intentional. Would have been better if he dumped the nose and went for the river. Still, remarkable and delighted that there were survivors.

I'll have to disagree on a stall. The main threat when losing an engine after takeoff is a rollover from failing to maintain airspeed above vmc. Below vmc, the controls are not adequate for preventing a rollover from the assymmetric thrust. Vmc is usually above stall speed. So with multiengine planes during a power loss, stall speeds don't usually factor into the crash since you just die if you lose vmc anyways. Whether they were actually below the actual vmc or merely failed to apply sufficient control input, I do not know, but the effect is the same either way. An inability to stop the plane from rolling into the dead engine.

The engine flamed out and the bird catastrophically rolled to port. Nothing could be done. It's an ATR after all, and they're notorious for severe complications following a engine failure.

 

(02:52Z) the aircraft began to roll left, the crew radioed "Mayday! Mayday! Engine Flame Out!" at 10:53L with no further transmission, the aircraft reached a maximum height of about 1050 feet (corrected for QNH), lost height, struck a taxi, hit a Huangdong Boulevard Viaduct with its left wing at nearly 90 degrees of bank angle at about 10:55L (02:55Z) and impacted the water of the Keelung River near the Nankang Software Park coming to rest inverted.

 

Different angle.

 

Different angle.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e36_1423052703

 

Definitely a engine flame out, Pilot declared a Mayday  (Check 23:25)

 

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/rcss/RCSS-Twr-Feb-04-2015-0230Z.mp3

This is horrible.

 

Too bad the plane just didn't have a bit more speed for the pilot to maintain control.

 

I'm guessing there was no way to pitch nose down quickly enough either.

 

It's an ATR after all, and they're notorious for severe complications following an engine failure.

 

Then why are they still flying?