TransAsia Airways Flight 222
TransAsia Airways Flight 222 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by TransAsia Airways from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to Magong, Penghu Island. On 23 July 2014, the ATR 72-500 twin turboprop operating the route crashed into buildings during approach to land in bad weather at Magong Airport. Among the 58 people on board, only 10 survived.
B-22810, the ATR 72 involved, photographed 5 days before the accident
Sequence of crash of Flight 222
Typhoon Matmo on 23 July 2014
TransAsia Airways was a Taiwanese airline based in Neihu District in Taipei. Though the company started its operations focusing mainly on the Taiwanese domestic market, it operated on many scheduled international routes and focused mainly on Southeast and Northeast Asia and cross-strait flights at the time of closure.
TransAsia headquarters
Foshing Airlines ATR 42-300.
TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600. This one crashed as Flight 235.
TransAsia Airways Airbus A330-300