New details have emerged about the TransAsia plane crash that killed 43 people after plunging into a river in Taiwan last February.
Reuters reported that Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council said Thursday that Captain Liao Jian-zong, who piloted TransAsia Airways Flight GE235, accidentally turned off the plane’s only working engine just before the deadly crash.
The Council also revealed that the captain did not pass his simulator training a year earlier.
"Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle," Liao, 41, can heard to say on voice recordings before the plane went down.
Several attempts he made to restart the engine after that were unsuccessful.
Days after the crash, investigators said that one engine on the plane lost power as it was reaching an altitude of 1,200 feet and then the other, which had been operating normally, cut off.
As previously reported, the aircraft clipped an overpass before plunging into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan.
Of the 58 people on board, 43 were killed including Liao and two other pilots.
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