Taipei pilot's mayday call: 'Mayday, mayday, engine flameout'
The pilot of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 said “mayday, mayday, engine flameout” moments before the propjet banked sharply and crashed into a Taipei river.
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SUBSCRIBEThe pilot of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 said “mayday, mayday, engine flameout” moments before the propjet banked sharply and crashed into a Taipei river.
The mangled fuselage of a TransAsia Airways commercial plane is dragged to the river bank. Picture: AP
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