Originally Posted by
SushiHunter
Yeah he's lucky. Looks like the plane had a wing stall. Why the stall, that's the big question which will probably be answered if they can get data from the plane. It's a prop jobber and this did happen in Taiwan so no telling if that plane had a functional black box on board.
Sushi Hunter, Yes, there are functional black boxes on all commercial aircrafts in Taiwan and it's already recovered. This less than some 1200 hours old regional TP had number 1 engine flameout upon takeoff. The pilot declared mayday and tried to sustain its flight over the narrow and winding river while avoiding crashing into high rise buildings and bridges, I'd say excellent effort of the pilot for keeping it above the river with asymmetrical thrust and full fuel load that ended up stalling over the bridge. Latest stats I got was 58 onboard with 27 confirmed deaths and still 16 some missing, 15 survived.