TransAsia Airways scrapped dozens of
flights on Saturday, the initial day of a pilot retraining programme, as
rescuers recovered five more bodies from the river in Taiwan where the
plane drowned. Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration instructed all
the airline's staff who wheel ATR jet to take exams on handling the
aircraft after it came out the pilots may have unaccountably shut off
one of the engines before Flight GE235 went down previous week.
Commencing today, all of TransAsia's 71 ATR pilots will face tests to be conducted by the CAA and third-party professional units for an estimated period of four days, the carrier told in a statement. As a result, some of their domestic flights will be adjusted, it told, describing that 90 domestic flights will be cancelled by Monday.
Commencing today, all of TransAsia's 71 ATR pilots will face tests to be conducted by the CAA and third-party professional units for an estimated period of four days, the carrier told in a statement. As a result, some of their domestic flights will be adjusted, it told, describing that 90 domestic flights will be cancelled by Monday.
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