Taiwan toll 43 as last passenger’s body found
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Rescuers recovered the remains of the last missing passenger in last week’s TransAsia plane crash in Taiwan yesterday, bringing the death toll to 43 in the airline’s second fatal accident in seven months.
The body of a Chinese mainland resident identified as Chen Rentai was located still attached to his seat about 3 kilometers from the site where the plane plunged into a river in Taipei.
TransAsia Airways flight GE235 crashed shortly after takeoff from Songshan airport last Wednesday. There were 53 passengers and five crew on board. Fifteen people survived.
The airline said it was canceling another 44 flights today after 10 of its pilots were banned from flying pending further training after failing a flight skills test imposed by the authorities.
Taiwan’s aviation regulator ordered the airline’s pilots to take tests on basic operating and emergency procedures for the French-made aircraft, after initial findings pointed to pilot error as behind last week’s crash.
Of TransAsia’s 68 pilots trained to fly ATR planes, 19 have not yet taken the test, because they are either training abroad or on sick leave.
The airline has said it will offer NT$14.9 million (US$470,000) compensation for each person who died, after it made a similar payout to the families of 48 passengers killed in another crash last July.
Investigators are still trying to establish what caused last week’s crash, but analysts have said the pilots may have turned off the wrong engine.
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