(Bloomberg) -- The TransAsia Airways Corp. plane that crashed in Taipei last year went down after its pilots failed to take the right actions following a series of contributing factors including an engine fault, investigators found.
The many factors culminated in a stall-induced loss of control by the pilots, according to a final report on the crash issued Thursday by the Taiwan Aviation Safety Council. The fatal accident could have been prevented if the crew had prioritized actions to stabilize the aircraft’s flight path, correctly identify the malfunction, and take appropriate steps, the report said.
Flight GE235 plunged into a river near Taipei on Feb. 4, 2015, after the pilot lost contact within minutes after takeoff, killing 43 of the 58 people on board. The final report reinforces findings issued in July last year that an engine fault in the turbo-propeller plane triggered a series of pilot errors that eventually crashed the aircraft.
|Flight crew failures
“The flight crew did not perform the documented abnormal and emergency procedures to identify the failure and implement the required corrective actions” following an uncommanded autofeather, or engine adjustment, the report said.
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