China Airlines Flight 140

China Airlines Flight 140

B-1816, the aircraft involved, seen at Nagoya International Airport, where the accident happened, a year before the crash
Accident
Date	26 April 1994 (1994-04-26)
Summary	Stalled and crashed on approach to land due to pilot error and poor training
Site	Nagoya Airport, Nagoya, Japan 35°14′43″N 136°55′56″E / 35.2453°N 136.9323°E / 35.2453; 136.9323
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Airbus A300B4-622R
Operator	China Airlines
IATA flight No.	CI140
ICAO flight No.	CAL140
Call sign	DYNASTY 140
Registration	B-1816
Flight origin	Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport, Taiwan
Destination	Nagoya Airport
Occupants	271
Passengers	256
Crew	15
Fatalities	264
Injuries	7
Survivors	7

China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (serving Taipei, Taiwan) to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.^{[note 1]}

On 26 April 1994, the Airbus A300 serving the route was completing a routine flight and approach, when, just seconds before landing at Nagoya Airport, the takeoff/go-around setting (TO/GA) was inadvertently triggered. The pilots attempted to pitch the aircraft down while the autopilot, which was not disabled, was pitching the aircraft up. The aircraft ultimately stalled and crashed into the ground, killing 264 of the 271 persons on board. The event remains the deadliest accident in the history of China Airlines, the second deadliest air crash in Japanese history after Japan Air Lines Flight 123, and the third deadliest air crash involving the Airbus A300.The aircraft was sistership to B-1814, which crashed as CAL676 in 1998.^[1][2][3]

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