Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration said it had ordered local airlines to carry out inspections on all their ATR 72s before they can fly again. The special checks will look at various aspects of the engine system, including fuel and propeller control.
TransAsia has to inspect 10 planes, while another carrier, Uni Air, has to examine 12 aircraft, according to the agency.
Hours after the crash, TransAsia Airways CEO Chen Xinde extended a "deep apology to the victims and our crew."
He said 31 of the passengers aboard the flight were Chinese tourists, including three children. Twenty-two were from Taiwan, including one child.
The airline had sent the passenger manifest to authorities, and families were confirming the identities of the deceased, he said.
TransAsia said Thursday that it has started to give families emergency condolence money of 200,000 Taiwanese dollars ($6,360) per victim. It said it would also give extra funds for funeral arrangements of 1.2 million Taiwanese dollars ($38,160) to families identifying bodies.
A pilot who once flew ATRs for American Airlines said it looked like the plane was gliding when dash-cam video from several angles captured the moments of the crash.
Stephen Fredrick pointed to the position of the nose, slightly down, and the wings, level.
"As it gets closer to the highway, there's a change in the pitch attitude (position of the plane) and it appears the aircraft (left) wing stalls, or loses lift. That's what causes the dramatic turn to the left," Fredrick told CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." "It's what causes the aircraft to come down more forcefully and crash."
The plane was 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the airport, Fredrick said, at a point where the pilots should have been able to continue with the flight even if one engine failed. The distance indicated to him that the engine problem occurred well after takeoff.
"It appears that it could have had a single-engine flameout, it could have had a dual-engine flameout," he said. "Those are things we're going to learn."
The left propeller was also set to a position for flight, rather than to a position for an inoperable engine, he said.
That could have caused drag and prompted the left wing to stall, CNN aviation analyst David Soucie said. Pilots normally before a flight will turn on a system that automatically adjusts the position of the propellers, the experts said.
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masuk kapal pakai safety belt siap2
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your window shade angkat
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Father's hunch saves toddler, wife from TransAsia plane crash
(CNN)As they took their seats on a TransAsia Airways flight that crashed in Taipei on Wednesday, Lin Ming-wei and his young family were looking forward to a vacation.
But a noise made Lin uneasy, and shortly before take-off, he asked cabin staff if they could take an empty row on the rear right hand side of the plane, which was bound for Kinmen, an island in the Taiwan Strait, local media reported.
Minutes later, Lin was fighting his way out of the plane's wreckage and searching frantically for his toddler in the shallow, murky waters of the Keelung River.
He searched for three minutes and when he found him, his lips were blue and his heart wasn't beating. Lin gave him CPR.
"He is my only child. I absolutely have to save his life —I can't lose him," the Liberty Times newspaper quoted him as saying.
His son survived, as did his wife, although both are being treated in hospital. Lin emerged unscathed and was the only one of 15 survivors that didn't need medical treatment.
Lucky escape
Lin puts his family's survival down to the last-minute decision to switch seats.
Initial reports indicated that it was the left side of the turboprop plane which was seriously damaged in the crash, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported. The Lins were originally seated on the left.
A rescue worker from the Taipei Fire Department, who was one of the first on the scene, said the cabin was already chest-deep in water when he entered.
"Many passengers were tangled up in their seat belts and hung upside down," the Taipei Times quoted him as saying.
Huang Chin-shun, a 72-year-old man, said he helped save four lives by unclipping safety belts.
"Shortly after taking off, I felt something was not right," he told CNN affiliate ETTV. "I thought: 'something's wrong with the engine,' because I always take this flight."
A total of 13 people were saved in the initial rescue effort but progress slowed and water had completely filled the fuselage by evening, when a crane lifted it from the water.
Car hit by plane
The Lins were not the only ones to have a lucky escape.
As the out-of-control plane spiraled into the river on the outskirts of the island's capital, it clipped a taxi traveling along an elevated highway.
The 52-year-old driver, surnamed Huang, and his female passenger sustained only minor injuries from shattered fragments of windshield glass.
Photographs showed a yellow Volkswagen vehicle with a flattened windshield and engine hood.
According to the Taipei Times, Chou said his family did not believe him at first when he telephoned home to say: "I'm OK. My car got into a crash, it was hit by an aeroplane."
Taipei, Feb. 5 (CNA) The number of fatalities in Wednesday's crash of a TransAsia Airways (????) plane increased to 32 as the search for 11 others on board the flight continued in cold and rainy weather in Taipei Thursday. The body of the latest confirmed victim was found in the cabin retrieved from the Keelung River, which the ATR-72 turboprop plane plunged into some 24 hours earlier.
Flight GE235 sent out a mayday shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Aiport before clipping a taxi and the guardrail of an elevated highway with its left wing and crashing into the river, just a few kilometers from the runway. Thirty-two bodies had been found as of late Thursday morning.
They include those of pilot Liao Chien-tsung (???), co-pilot Liu Tzu-chung (???)and flight engineer Hung Ping-chung (???). Fifteen of the 58 people on board survivied. Rescue workers continued to look for the 11 others, who they feared may have drifted downstream toward the larger Tamsui River. An investigation has begun into the cause of the crash. (By Sunrise Huang and Jay Chen)
Crash is 4th deadly air incident for TransAsia in 20 years
Taipei, Feb. 4 (CNA) Wednesday's crash of a passenger plane in Taipei marked the fourth deadly air incident involving Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways (????) in the past 20 years, all involving ATR 72 aircraft. Back in Jan. 30, 1995, a TransAsia ATR 72 plane crashed in the mountains of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan after deviating from its route on a return flight to Taipei's Songshan Airport from Magong on the Penghu Islands. The crash killed the two pilots and both crew members, but there were no passengers aboard.
On Dec. 21, 2002, an ATR 72 cargo plane from Taoyuan to Macau crashed into the seas southwest of Penghu because of an ice buildup, killing the two pilots. Just last year, a TransAsia Airways flight departing from Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan to Penghu crashed outside of Magong Airport after a failed landing amid inclement weather.
The incident on July 23 left 48 of the 58 people on board dead. Wednesday's crash occurred at 10:53 a.m. right after the plane left Taipei to the outlying island county of Kinmen. It crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei's Nangang District after apparently hitting an elevated expressway. As of 11:30 p.m., TransAsia said 26 people had been confirmed dead.
Founded in 1951 for domestic flight services, TransAsia Airways now operates international flights to nearby destinations in Asia, including mainland China. Its fleet size is about two dozen planes, including several other ATR 72s. (By Wang Shu-fen and Elizabeth Hsu
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