Singapore Airlines Flight 006 · Taoyuan International Airport
On October 31, 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 (Taoyuan International Airport). 83 people died.
- Date
- October 31, 2000
- Place
- Taoyuan International Airport
- Operator
- Singapore Airlines
- Killed
- 83
- Injured
- 71
- Position
- 25.081°N, 121.230°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q478172
From Wikipedia
Singapore Airlines Flight 006 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, United States, via Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now known as Taoyuan International Airport) near Taipei, Taiwan. On 31 October 2000, at 23:18 Taipei local time (14:18 UTC), the Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed into construction equipment during a typhoon. The disaster resulted in 83 fatalities among the 179 people aboard the aircraft, with 98 occupants initially surviving the impact before two passengers later succumbed to their injuries in the hospital. This was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 747-400 and the first fatal crash in the history of Singapore Airlines.
While the official investigation by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council attributed the crash to flight crew error, a report by Singapore's Ministry of Transport disputed this finding, arguing that systemic failures in air traffic control (ATC) and airport infrastructure were the primary causes.
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