Sunday, February 8, 2015

TransAsia starts pilot retraining

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.

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