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Damn I've lost count of the number of times I've flown into Penghu from Kaohsiung or Taipei on that transasia flight. One of my favourite planes and those pilots sibeh zhai one.

 

The weather can be shit during typhoon season. though.

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It's not a good year for aviation industry this year :(

One accident after another ...

 

Just hope that this will be the last one to happen le... RIP to the deceased.

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It's not a good year for aviation industry this year :(

One accident after another ...

 

Just hope that this will be the last one to happen le... RIP to the deceased.

 

 

sadly my friend, things always happens in threes. [:(][:(]

 

this, from a pilot friend himself

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It's not a good year for aviation industry this year :(

One accident after another ...

 

Just hope that this will be the last one to happen le... RIP to the deceased.

Indeed not a good year for aviation industry, all the incident happened are very major. Hopefully no more for the rest of the year.

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According to some media the plane is a propeller-powered type of passenger carrier.

 

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The flight is operated with an ATR-72.. contrary to popular beliefs, turboprop planes may look old fashioned, but this plane is full of modern technology. In fact, many airlines operate this on short haul flights due to it's higher efficiency at lower speed. Firefly airline (subsidary of MAS) operates purely ATR-72 if i'm not wrong.

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The flight is operated with an ATR-72.. contrary to popular beliefs, turboprop planes may look old fashioned, but this plane is full of modern technology. In fact, many airlines operate this on short haul flights due to it's higher efficiency at lower speed. Firefly airline (subsidary of MAS) operates purely ATR-72 if i'm not wrong.

 

Must look at the track record....

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=2533674

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"Over the past 13 years, TransAsia Airways recorded eight accidents, including six with the French-Italian ATR-72, the Chinese-language Apple Daily wrote."

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Must look at the track record....

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=2533674

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"Over the past 13 years, TransAsia Airways recorded eight accidents, including six with the French-Italian ATR-72, the Chinese-language Apple Daily wrote."

 

It's more of the airline than the aircraft type ba..

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72#Accidents_and_incidents

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Damn I've lost count of the number of times I've flown into Penghu from Kaohsiung or Taipei on that transasia flight. One of my favourite planes and those pilots sibeh zhai one.

 

The weather can be shit during typhoon season. though.

 

 

agree this one due to bad weather [:(]

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Technically since March MH370 was the 22nd plane to have crashed in 2014. There was a recorded 138 plane crashes in 2013, and 155 in 2012 but these figures refer to all airplanes flying around in the world - private and commercial aviation included.

 

There hasn't been an unusually high number of crashes this year but when it did, it strikes hard.

 

 

In just the first two and a half months of the year, 376 people have died in plane crashes, compared to a total of 462 for the whole of last year.

 

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This chart was dated March. It is July now - add in MH17, do the math and you get the entire picture.

 

RIP to all the innocent lives lost.

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