How it happened: A file picture showing the TransAsia plane clipping an elevated motorway and hitting a taxi before crashing into the Keelung River outside Taipei. — AFP
TAIPEI: The pilot of a passenger plane that crashed in Taiwan killing 43 people shut down the aircraft’s only working engine, exclaiming: “Wow, pulled back wrong throttle,” seconds before the disaster, investigators said.
TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 clipped a bridge and plunged into a river shortly after take-off from Taipei’s Songshan airport in February with 53 passengers and five crew on board. Only 15 people survived.
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