APEX Flight Academy AFA72 Occurrence
Category
Other(OTHR)
Type
Diamond/DA-40NG
Date
2018-07-09
Area
Outside Airport/RCKH/approx． SW 11 miles
Description
On July 9, 2018, APEX Flight Academy, flight AFA72, a DA-40NG trainer aircraft, registration number B-88123, took off at 1623 Taipei local time from Taitung Airport to Kaohsiung Airport for a training flight mission with one instructor pilot and 2 student pilots on board. The flight crew informed the traffic controller that the engine was malfunction at 1702, and then declared emergency and decided ditching on the sea, after that, the aircraft lost radar contact about 11 miles southwest of Kaohsiung Airport.
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