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F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash.
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RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash.
Don't always listen to the aviation experts you hear on the TV. Some, although not all, talk utter rubbish.

First off, an aircraft of this performance specification is perfectly flyable on one engine. A normal engine rundown after takeoff is a relatively simple and well practiced drill. Essentially you need to put a load of ruddder in to counteract the yaw, you identify and shutdown the correct engine (both pilots should confirm that the correct engine is being shut down), and then focus on flying the plane and accelerating once above an altitude, normally 1000ft.

It appears that the incorrect, working engine (left) was shutdown, whilst the other was producing idle thrust only. The crash could have been caused by some sort of non standard technical problem with the engines causing complete confusion and the wrong engine to be shutdown or perhaps something else entirely. Normally these crashes have a few contributing factors.

The aircraft looks to have stalled, with a wing drop to the left as the right engine was still producing some extra airflow over the right wing. At this point it is essentially uncontrollable without consierable height to recover from the stall. It could have gone below Vmca (min controllable speed with the rudder with one engine only), but this doesn't look like that from the video.
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F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Brian37 - February 4, 2015 at 10:12 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Tonus - February 4, 2015 at 12:36 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by AFTT47 - February 4, 2015 at 1:14 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Brian37 - February 4, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Brian37 - February 4, 2015 at 3:43 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by JuliaL - February 4, 2015 at 4:00 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Brian37 - February 5, 2015 at 8:20 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by JuliaL - February 6, 2015 at 8:21 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Aisha - February 5, 2015 at 2:50 pm
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by Tonus - February 6, 2015 at 8:24 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by FreeTony - February 6, 2015 at 9:14 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by JuliaL - February 6, 2015 at 10:36 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by vorlon13 - February 6, 2015 at 10:47 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by JuliaL - February 6, 2015 at 10:53 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by vorlon13 - February 6, 2015 at 11:03 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by JuliaL - February 6, 2015 at 11:18 am
RE: F the word "Miraculous" Taipei plane crash. - by FreeTony - February 6, 2015 at 11:07 am

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