TransAsia begins retraining pilots

TransAsia Airways has started the first day of a programme to retrain its pilots after its second deadly crash in seven months.

On Wednesday an ATR 72-600 plane plunged into a river in Taipei with 53 passengers and five crew members on board.

Thirty-eight people were killed, 15 survived and rescuers are still searching the river and submerged wreckage for another five who remain missing.

Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) ordered all of TransAsia's 71 pilots who fly ATR planes to take oral tests on operating the aircraft as part of the retraining, after it emerged the pilots may have inexplicably shut down one of the engines before the crash.

"Starting today, all of TransAsia's 71 ATR pilots will undergo tests to be carried out by the CAA and third-party professional units for an estimated period of four days," the airline said in a statement.

"As a result, some of our domestic flights will be adjusted," it said, explaining that 90 domestic flights will be cancelled by Monday.

Investigators are still trying to establish what caused Flight GE235 to crash.

Initial reports from the plane's black boxes found the right engine had "flamed out" about two minutes after taking off from an airport in northern Taipei.

Warning signals blared in the cockpit and the left engine was then shut down manually by the crew, for unknown reasons, Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council said yesterday.

The chief pilot has been hailed as a hero after reports emerged his body was found still clutching the joystick, after he apparently battled to avoid populated areas.

Body of co-pilot recovered from AirAsia crash site

Indonesian divers have found a body believed to be the French co-pilot who was steering an AirAsia plane when it crashed in December with 162 people onboard.

Flight QZ8501 went down in stormy weather on 28 December in the Java sea during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

Coordinator of the search and rescue effort SB Supriyadi said the body was retrieved from the front part of the fuselage during a search operation yesterday.

"It is likely the body of the French co-pilot, wearing uniform with three stripes on (the) shoulder," he told AFP.

Indonesian investigators last month said French co-pilot Remi Plesel was flying the plane before it crashed, rather than Captain Iriyanto, an experienced former fighter pilot.

Divers also found three bodies inside the main body of the plane yesterday and another three bodies near the fuselage today.

A total of 101 bodies have now been retrieved.

Rescue services are still trying to lift the fuselage from the seabed using giant inflatable bags after earlier attempts failed.

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