| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | July 23, 2014 |
| Time: | 1906 |
| Location: | Magong, Taiwan |
| Operator: | TransAsia Airways |
| Flight #: | 222 |
| Route: | Kaohsiung - Magong |
| AC Type: | ATR 72-500 |
| Registration: | B-22810 |
| cn / ln: | 642 |
| Aboard: | 58 (passengers:54 crew:4) |
| Fatalities: | 48 (passengers:44 crew:4) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The passenger plane crashed into residential building while attempting to make an emergency landing during inclement weather due to the passing of hurricane Matmo. The flight recorder revealed that after the the crew lost track of its flight path and moved away from the runway, the plane rapidly lost altitude and crashed to the ground in a period of 7.9 seconds. By the time the two pilots yelled to go around, there was nothing they could do to change the velocity and altitude of the plane in time to prevent a crash. The airport's control tower did not inform the aircraft of local weather conditions.The cause was pilot error and a failure within the airline to follow safety procedures. The flight crew did not comply with the published runway 20 VOR non-precision instrument approach procedures at Magong Airport with respect to the minimum descent altitude. The captain, as the pilot flying, intentionally descended the aircraft below the published MDA of 330 feet in the instrument meteorological conditions. |
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