China Airlines Flight 140 · Nagoya Airfield
On April 26, 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 (Nagoya Airfield). 264 people died.
- Date
- April 26, 1994
- Place
- Nagoya Airfield
- Operator
- China Airlines
- Killed
- 264
- Injured
- 7
- Position
- 35.245°N, 136.932°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q699055
From Wikipedia
China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.
On 26 April 1994, the Airbus A300 serving the route was completing a routine flight and approach when, on approach to landing at Nagoya Airport, the takeoff/go-around setting (TO/GA) was inadvertently triggered. The pilots attempted to pitch the aircraft down while the autopilot, which was not disabled, was pitching the aircraft up. The aircraft ultimately stalled and crashed into the ground, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. The event remains the deadliest accident in the history of China Airlines, the second deadliest air crash in Japanese history after Japan Air Lines Flight 123, and the third deadliest air crash involving the Airbus A300.
Text from Wikipedia, “China Airlines Flight 140”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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