1.媒體來源:
CNN
Tim Hume (20150702 2306GMT/0606HKT)
2.完整新聞標題:
Captain of TransAsia Flight 235 shut off working engine after other
failed: Report
復航 235 班機駕駛於一具引擎故障後關閉正常的引擎
3.完整新聞內文:
(CNN) - "Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle."
These are the words of the captain of TransAsia Airways Flight GE235,
eight seconds before the plane clipped a bridge and plunged into a
Taiwanese river mere minutes after takeoff, killing 43 people on board.
The latest report by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council into the February
crash confirms that the captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft
mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost
power.
The plane is designed to be able to be flown on one engine.
The report also showed that the captain had failed simulator training less
than a year earlier, partly because he had demonstrated a lack of knowledge
of how to respond to engine flameout at takeoff.
The aircraft, which was less than a year old, flew perilously between
buildings and clipped a bridge and a taxi before crashing into the shallow
Keelung River in Taiwan's captial, Taipei.
Fifteen of the 58 people on board the flight, all mainland Chinese or from
Taiwan survivied.
The plane's entire cockpit crew was killed in the crash, autorities said.
Engine flameout
The findings come in the Aviation Safety Council's Factual Data
Collection Group Report, a presentation of facts found in investigating
the crash.
The report draws no conclusions and makes no recommendations, and a final
report is to follow in April 2016.
The report showed that less than a minute after takeoff, once the plane
had climbed 1,200 feet, the master warning sounded, and a display showed
that there had been an engine flameout, or power failure, in engine 2.
The captain responded by pulling back on the throttle