Pilot error and engine failure on TransAsia 235 ? Jan's Aviation
The black boxes from TransAsia Airways flight 235 have been recovered and analyzed, and the Aviation Safety Council is releasing some new information.
Just over half a minute into the flight, one of the engines began to idle. Just as it reached 1,200 feet, the right engine went out.
However, the pilots shut down the left engine, instead of the right. They later tried to restart both engines, but the plane crashed.
There were five stall warnings before the ATR-72 landed in the Keelung River.
Thomas Wang, the Executive Director of the Aviation Safety Council in Taiwan, said that this information comes from the flight data recorder. The cockpit voice recorder is still being analyzed. A transcript will be released once that is complete.