Civil Air Transport Flight 10

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Civil Air Transport Flight 10
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B-1018, the Boeing 727 aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date16 February 1968 (1968-02-16)
Summary Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error
SiteHunan Village, Taipei County, Linkou Township (now Hunan, Linkou District, New Taipei City)
Total fatalities22
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 727-92C
Aircraft nameSuper Cuihua
Operator Civil Air Transport
Registration B-1018
Flight origin Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong
Destination Songshan Airport, Taipei, Taiwan
Passengers52
Crew11
Fatalities21
Injuries42
Survivors42
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities1

Civil Air Transport Flight 10 was a passenger flight from the now-closed Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong to Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan. The flight CT-010 was operated by a Boeing 727-92C with registration B-1018. On 16 February 1968, [1] the aircraft crashed into Hunan village in Linkou Township, Taipei County (now Linkou District, New Taipei City), [2] killing 21 people on board as well as one person on the ground. [3] 42 people were injured.

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Accident

On the evening of 16 February 1968, B-1018 was flying from Hong Kong to Taipei Songshan Airport under the command of captain Stuart E. Dew and captain Hugh Hicks. Taipei's approach control cleared Flight 10 for an ILS approach and then transferred the flight to the tower control. The direction and heading of the plane were normal, and the weather was clear, until Captain Hicks suddenly noticed the aircraft’s altitude had dropped too low. He pushed the throttles in an attempt to perform a go-around. As the plane touched ground, the flight recorder recorded Captain Dew screaming: "Go to hell!" [4] The aircraft then crashed into houses and burst into flames.

Firefighters from Songshan Airport and the U.S. military personnel from Shu Lin Kou Air Station nearby assisted in the rescue. In the end, 21 of the 63 people on the aircraft were killed, along with one farmer on the ground.

Investigation

Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration released the final report on 4 March. It concluded that the cause of the accident was due to pilot error, stating that:

Aftermath

The 727 involved was leased from Southern Air Transport, and was Civil Air Transport's only aircraft that flew international routes. [4] The crash resulted in the demise of the airline. International flights were taken over by China Airlines, and Civil Air Transport ceased operations in 1975.

Exactly 30 years after this accident, China Airlines Flight 676, a flight from Bali, Indonesia to Taipei, crashed in Dayuan Township, Taoyuan County, (now Dayuan District, Taoyuan City) killing 203 people (all 196 on board and seven more on the ground). [5]

Changes

Since the air traffic control radar at the time did not track the altitude of the aircraft, it was impossible to understand why Flight 10 suddenly dropped in altitude. It was only after the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 on 29 December 1972, in Miami, USA, that the Federal Aviation Administration began to introduce improved radar systems that displayed a flight's altitude. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "民航客機超級翠華號林口上空失事" [Civil Aviation Passenger Aircraft Super Cuihua Wrecked Over Linkou]. General News (in Chinese). Taiwan Provincial Film Studio. February 1968.
  2. ↑ "民航自港飛台班機 昨晚緊急迫降失事" [A civil aviation flight from Hong Kong crashed into an emergency landing last night]. United News (in Chinese). 1968-02-17.
  3. ↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-92C B-1018 Taipei". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation . Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  4. 1 2 "回顧台灣民航發展史 (上)" [Reviewing the history of Taiwan's civil aviation development (part 1)](PDF) (in Chinese). Airway. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-14. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  5. ↑ Ranter, Harro (16 February 1998). "ASN Accident Description (China Airlines 676)". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation . Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Eastern Airlines, Inc. L-1011, N310EA, Miami, Florida, December 29, 1972" (PDF). Aircraft Accident Report. National Transportation Safety Board. June 14, 1973. NTSB/AAR-73/14. Retrieved February 8, 2016.

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