Dramatic dash-cam footage in Taiwan shows a TransAsia Airways plane scraping past a major highway moments before it careened into a shallow river, killing at least 26 people. It was almost movie like. That's scary... With all the failed (or missing) planes over the last couple of years, I have a feeling there is a serious personnel problem within all these companies. Whether they have been hiring inexperienced people, letting go higher paid experienced people, or gotten just plain lazy I don't know - but there is clearly a problem worth investigating.The crash marks the second tragedy involving one of TransAsia’s French-made ATR 72 planes in the past year. In July, a flight crashed while attempting to land on the island of Penghu off Taiwan's coast, killing 48 people and injuring another 10.
But let’s be real here, for a plane to go down right after take-off with a pilot with such high numbers of flight hours is highly unusual. Did the pilot do everything he could? This reminds me of losing control of your car. Your instincts and experience take over, but very quickly you realize you can only do so much. I couldn't imagine what those passengers went through, especially those who had the misfortune of the window seat giving them a full view of the road and passing cars.
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