In my opinion,the crash of a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 Flight SQ006 in Taipei was caused by the taxiway lights that misguided the pilot of the ill-fated aircraft towards runway 5R that was closed due to maintainance.The aircraft should depart from runway 5L which was the designated runway.In fact some of the lights which lead to runway 5L were dim or not in working order.This might be the cause of the fatal crash that had killed 83 of 179 passengers onboard.The windspeed at the time of the crash was 28 knots and was within flight operational limits.The three pilots,CPT Foong Chee Kong,F/O Latiff Cyrano and F/O Ng Kheng Leng were well trained and disciplined pilots.
[This message has been edited by muhdzailan (edited 26 February 2001).]