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The aircraft involved was an Embraer ERJ-190LR operated by Air Astana of Kazakhstan. It was registered as P4-KCJ with the serial number 19000653. It was delivered to the airline by Embraer in December 2013. Prior to the accident, it had accumulated a total of 13,152 flight hours. [1] [3]
A video filmed from the ground showed the aircraft banking steeply to the left before crashing 65 metres (213 ft) away. [7] [3] [8] Another video of the crash was streamed live on Facebook from inside the plane by a passenger, Sonu Jaiswal, showing that the passengers were unaware of the situation until seconds before impact. [9] [10]
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
TransAsia Airways Flight 235 was a domestic flight from Taipei to Kinmen, Taiwan.On 4 February 2015, the aircraft serving the flight, a 10-month-old ATR 72-600, crashed into the Keelung River around 5 km (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) from Taipei Songshan Airport, where the aircraft had just departed from.
[9] [10] The aircraft's wings were reported as being on fire moments before the plane crashed into the rooftops of the houses and buildings in the area, [11] [12] [9] some of which caught fire. [13] The crash was captured on video by a CCTV camera of a nearby building, which shows the aircraft just before crashing into the neighborhood. [14]
A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said.
The American World War II fighter aircraft had been flying an unplanned sequence, when the pilot lost control at the top of a climbing maneuver and was unable to recover from the resulting dive. The aircraft impacted the ground to the west of the runway in a steep nose down attitude. [234] The incident was captured on video. [235]