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Mimi Lau

A TransAsia Airways flight had to land with only one of its two engines on an island off the coast of Taiwan on Tuesday just over a year after another of the carrier’s planes crashed near its airport, killing 48 people.
A TransAsia plane also crashed into a river in Taipei in February, killing 43 passengers and crew.
The flight from Taipei to Magong airport on Penghu island developed a problem in its second engine after take-off at 7.55am on Tuesday and had to be shut down, the airline said in a statement.
The flight landed safely on one engine just before 9am, the statement added.
Twenty-two passengers were on board the aircraft, according to a TV report in Taiwan.
They were told of the engine problem and urged to remain calm, the report said.
Two of the airlines’ later flights from Kaohsiung to Magong were cancelled after the incident was reported to Taiwan’s aviation authority.
Pilots followed standard procedure to shut down the engine and land, the airline said.
The faulty engine had developed an oil leak, the China News Service reported, citing Taiwan's civil aviation authority.

The plane was eight-years-old and it was the first time such a problem had been reported with the aircraft, the report said.
The TransAsia aircraft that crashed on Penghu island in July last year had flown from Kaohsuing and it tried to land during a heavy storm.
Ten people survived the crash.
READ MORE: Taiwanese officials defend letting TransAsia plane fly in wake of typhoon after 48 die in crash
The airline’s plane that crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei in February had also developed engine problems, shortly after take-off, and accident investigators said the crew then shut down the other engine by mistake.
All of the planes involved in the three incidents were ATR 72 aircraft.
 
 
 
 


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TransAsia Airways plane forced to land on one engine months after another of its aircraft crashed on same island in Taiwan

Pilot in crashed TransAsia flight shut down plane’s only working engine by mistake: Taiwan probe

Two more bodies recovered from crash site of TransAsia Flight GE235 in Taipei

TransAsia Airways Flight GE235

Rescue workers sift through debris at the scene of last year's crash on Penghu island. Photo: EPA

Archive picture taken moments before a TransAsia flight crashed into a river in Taipei in February. Photo: SCMP Pictures

‘I closed my eyes and hoped I would be OK’: passengers on planes that turned back before Penghu crash relive terror

Investigators unseal the crash site at Xixi village, Penghu, yesterday, while soldiers in protective gear spray the area with disinfectant. Photo: CNA

Relatives, friends grieve for Taiwan plane victims as some blame authorities for crash

Chen Poh-jrui holds a photo of his fiancée, Wu Tzu-ying. Wu was a flight attendant aboard TransAsia flight 222, which crashed on Penghu Island on Wednesday. Photo: EPA

One of the relatives of a victim of flight GE222 tells the media the crew were not to blame for the tragedy. Photo: Adrian Wan

One of seven bodies is loaded aboard a van for transport to a plane for a flight to Kaohsiung. Photo: Adrian Wan

A Buddhist monk (centre) performs a ritual for the victims of the crash on Penghu Island. Photo: EPA

One of seven bodies is loaded aboard a van for transport to a plane for a flight to Kaohsiung. Photo: Reuters

People injured in the plane crash arrive for treatment at an airport in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. Photo: Reuters

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

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

The airliner clipping a bridge seconds before the crash in February. Photo: SCMP Pictures

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