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Five Taiwan Meteorologists Indicted Over TAA Cargo Plane Crash
TAIPEI, June 21 Asia Pulse - Five Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) meteorologists were indicted Tuesday over their alleged failure to issue a bad weather warning that led to a tragic plane crash in December 2002.
The five CAA staff members were charged with dereliction of duty and involuntary manslaughter as their failure to issue SIGMET warnings allegedly led to the crash of a Macau-bound TransAsia Airways (TAA) cargo plane Dec. 21, 2002, which killed two pilots.
Prosecutorial investigations found that the crash was caused by ice accumulation around the plane's major components, resulting in the aircraft's loss of control and plunge into the seas, the indictment said.
According to the investigations, both Hong Kong and Japanese aviation authorities had issued SIGMET warnings to aircraft in the Taiwan Strait both before and after the TAA air tragedy.
The SIGMET (significant meteorology) reports are designed to provide information concerning en-route weather phenomena which may affect an aircraft's safety.
But the CAA failed to issue similar alerts before the ATR-72 TransAsia Airways cargo aircraft plowed into the Taiwan Strait in bad weather, the indictment said, adding that the CAA meteorology center didn't issue the ice accumulation warnings until after the TAA cargo plane crash. Their negligence left pilots unaware of the need to take timely steps.
The indicted CAA staffers are Liu Chao-ming, a chief meteorologist, and four weather analysts -- Wang Tai-yuan, Yu Shou-liang, Tsai Chia-cheng and Hsu Ching-hui, who were on duty at the time.
The ATR-72 aircraft, powered by twin propellers, took off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in northern Taiwan at 1:05 a.m. Dec. 21, 2002, but disappeared from radar screens at 1: 56 a.m. that day.
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Five Taiwan Meteorologists Indicted Over TAA Cargo Plane Crash
TAIPEI, June 21 Asia Pulse - Five Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) meteorologists were indicted Tuesday over their alleged failure to issue a bad weather warning that led to a tragic plane crash in December 2002.
The five CAA staff members were charged with dereliction of duty and involuntary manslaughter as their failure to issue SIGMET warnings allegedly led to the crash of a Macau-bound TransAsia Airways (TAA) cargo plane Dec. 21, 2002, which killed two pilots.
Prosecutorial investigations found that the crash was caused by ice accumulation around the plane's major components, resulting in the aircraft's loss of control and plunge into the seas, the indictment said.
According to the investigations, both Hong Kong and Japanese aviation authorities had issued SIGMET warnings to aircraft in the Taiwan Strait both before and after the TAA air tragedy.
The SIGMET (significant meteorology) reports are designed to provide information concerning en-route weather phenomena which may affect an aircraft's safety.
But the CAA failed to issue similar alerts before the ATR-72 TransAsia Airways cargo aircraft plowed into the Taiwan Strait in bad weather, the indictment said, adding that the CAA meteorology center didn't issue the ice accumulation warnings until after the TAA cargo plane crash. Their negligence left pilots unaware of the need to take timely steps.
The indicted CAA staffers are Liu Chao-ming, a chief meteorologist, and four weather analysts -- Wang Tai-yuan, Yu Shou-liang, Tsai Chia-cheng and Hsu Ching-hui, who were on duty at the time.
The ATR-72 aircraft, powered by twin propellers, took off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in northern Taiwan at 1:05 a.m. Dec. 21, 2002, but disappeared from radar screens at 1: 56 a.m. that day.
