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February 6, 2015
As authorities continue to investigate the crash of TransAsia Airways Flight 235, new details are beginning to emerge.
According to the Wall Street Journal, flight data reviewed by investigators indicates that the plane's right engine appears to have malfunctioned almost immediately after takeoff. After the malfunction, fuel to the left engine was cut off manually. Both engines stopped producing thrust just before the crash.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that it remains unclear why the second engine was shut down, but that it is possible the pilots may have turned off the wrong engine in order to restart the one that had malfunctioned.
More bodies were recovered from the crash site in Taipei's Keelung River. The official death toll currently stands at 35, with 15 injured and eight missing. The flight was carrying 53 passengers and five crew.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the pilot complained of “engine abnormalities” and requested that the plane be inspected shortly before takeoff, but was rebuffed. This report comes from an unnamed whistleblower quoted in Taiwan's Liberty Times newspaper.
According to the report, the pilot registered the problem on a flight log, but TransAsia staff limited the inspection to the plane's communications equipment, out of a fear that they may have incurred penalties for delaying the flight.
Wu Huh-sheng, a company manager at TransAsia, said that the airline had received no reports of faulty engines.
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