re: Another Asian passenger plane down - now w/ video of the plane crashing in OP

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Where is happened is actually next to an office my company has. I've been on that highway before.

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I would assume there's not much work getting done in that building right now.

Kudos to the pilot for actually maneuvering that rapidly dropping hunk of metal into the River. Likely saved some lives on the plane as well as the highway. That plane would probably have exploded in flames had he hit the roadway.

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There's actually a cultural factor that makes it difficult for subordinates to point out a superior's mistakes. So if the pilot is screwing up, the copilot is reluctant to say anything.

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Was coming in to say this.

can we say bad day

Update: LINK

Captain of TransAsia Flight 235 shut off working engine after other failed

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"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 capital, Taipei.

Fifteen of the 58 people on board the flight, all mainland Chinese or from Taiwan, survived.

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, a 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 -- but on the other, working engine, shutting it off about 46 seconds after the other engine failed, causing the aircraft to stall.

The mistake was not noticed until about two minutes later, when the pilot managed to restore some power to engine 1, but it was too late to avoid the crash.

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I don't know if I'll ever fly on an Asian airline. The pilots are just terrible.

Why do most threads lock after a couple months so you can't bump them but not all threads?

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the captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost power.

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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.

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The mistake was not noticed until about two minutes later, when the pilot managed to restore some power to engine 1, but it was too late to avoid the crash.

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What the frick, why was he flying a plane then?

Good God Asians are the fricking worst at driving anything with an engine.
Their womenz, though,

We need to save all the Asian women before the males get them all killed. I'm willing to take in a few "refugees". Pics first though.