TransAsia Airways Faces Scrutiny After 2nd Fatal Crash 

 HONG KONG — The crash of a passenger plane into a river in Taiwan on Wednesday, which killed at least 31 people, has renewed questions about the safety of the airline, TransAsia Airways. It was the carrier’s second deadly accident in less than seven months.

On Thursday, Taiwan’s aviation regulators ordered inspections of all aircraft from ATR, the maker of the plane that crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the capital, Taipei. The regulatory agency, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, said the inspections would be completed Thursday for TransAsia’s aircraft and Friday for ATRs flown by Uni Air, the only other carrier in Taiwan to operate the French- and Italian-made turboprops.

Inspectors would focus on the aircraft’s engines, fuel systems and propeller controls, among other systems, the agency said in a written statement.

The ATR-72-600 that crashed Wednesday was bound from Taipei Songshan Airport as Flight 235 to the outlying island of Kinmen, near the mainland Chinese province of Fujian. The crash was caught on dashboard cameras of cars traveling on Huandong Boulevard, on the east side of the capital, in terrifying scenes of the plane flying low past apartment buildings, its left wing dipping and striking the roadway before it plunged into the Keelung River.

Continue reading the main storyThe ATR-72-600 that crashed Wednesday was bound from Taipei Songshan Airport as Flight 235 to the outlying island of Kinmen, near the mainland Chinese province of Fujian. The crash was caught on dashboard cameras of cars traveling on Huandong Boulevard, on the east side of the capital, in terrifying scenes of the plane flying low past apartment buildings, its left wing dipping and striking the roadway before it plunged into the Keelung River.