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Bloomberg

TransAsia has cancelled 90 flights over three days to allow its ATR pilots to receive mandated retraining and undergo tests after the post-take-off crash that killed at least 40 people.
The affected flights are on domestic routes to Quemoy, Penghu and Hualian from Kaoshiung, Taichung and Taipei, the Taipei-based airline announced in a statement yesterday.
The carrier cancelled 24 flights scheduled for yesterday, 36 today and 30 tomorrow.
Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration ordered the retraining and tests on Friday after investigators provided the first details into what happened to TransAsia flight GE235, an ATR72 turboprop that plunged into Taipei's Keelung River after take-off last Wednesday.
Three people are still missing from the crash, which followed a July accident in which 48 people died in another of the carrier's ATR72 aircraft.
All 71 of TransAsia's ATR pilots must undergo training and oral and written tests on emergency procedures within four days, CAA director-general Tim Lin said.
Pilots, who will still be able to fly even if they have not yet taken the tests, will later have to practise in simulators.
"I and my family would of course board their planes," said Clark Lin, the CAA's director for flight standards.
"The fact that we have imposed these requirements shows our confidence."
TransAsia has announced that it planned to invite international aviation safety experts to conduct a year-long safety review of the company, and would adopt measures to enhance its organisation and training as well as adjust existing routes.
TransAsia flies Airbus Group NV jets as well as turboprops from ATR, a partnership between Airbus and Italy's Alenia Aermacchi SpA.
While data from flight GE235 showed the right engine was operating normally, an engine warning went off and the propeller was automatically "feathered" - a setting that turns the blades so they are parallel to the airflow to reduce drag, said Thomas Wang, managing director of the Aviation Safety Council.
Soon after, the other engine had its propeller setting manually reduced before the fuel flow was cut off.
Wang said investigators were not yet able to explain the warnings, engine operations or the crew's actions.
The official death toll from the crash rose to 40 yesterday as more bodies were recovered.
Family members of those still missing had given up hope, said Lee Hung Shu-ying, a Tzu Chi Foundation volunteer who talked to relatives yesterday.
"They know it's not possible [to survive] with the weather being so cold," she said.
"They just hope the bodies can be found."
The aircraft, which was bound for Taiwan's outlying Quemoy islands, was carrying 58 people - five crew members and 53 passengers. There were 15 survivors.
Footage from a car's dash-cam showed the plane turning sideways and then grazing a taxi and an elevated expressway before crashing into the river.
The ASC said it would compile a preliminary report in 30 days.


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Divers continue the grim search for bodies in Taipei's Keelung River yesterday. Photo: CNA

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Schedule scrapped to accommodate proficiency tests on airline's ATR turboprop planes


TransAsia has cancelled 90 flights over three days to allow its ATR pilots to receive mandated retraining and undergo tests after the post-take-off crash that killed at least 40 people.


TransAsia cancels 90 flights so ATR pilots can be retrained and tested

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Schedule scrapped to accommodate proficiency tests on airline's ATR turboprop planes