What Other Crashes Has TransAsia Suffered in 20 Years?

Feb. 3 crash was fifth time TransAsia has lost an aircraft since 1995, and the seventh overall safety incident.
What Other Crashes Has TransAsia Suffered in 20 Years?
Rescue workers and firefighters search through the wreckage where TransAsia Airways flight GE222 crashed the night before near the airport at Magong on the Penghu island chain on July 24, 2014. Taiwan's TransAsia Airways said on July 24 that 48 people were killed and 10 survived when one of its turboprop passenger planes crashed after an aborted landing during stormy weather. Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images
Cindy Drukier
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The crash of TransAsia Airways flight GE235 into Taipei’s Keelung river is the fifth time TransAsia has lost an aircraft since 1995, and the seventh overall safety incident.

TheATR-72 aircraft with 53 people on board crashed on Feb. 3 shortly after takeoff, killing at least 19 people.

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Cindy Drukier
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Cindy Drukier is a veteran journalist, editor, and producer. She's the host of NTD's International Reporters Roundtable featured on EpochTV, and perviously host of NTD's The Nation Speaks. She's also an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her two films are available on EpochTV: "Finding Manny" and "The Unseen Crisis"