Accidents 24.07.

2014



Man killed in accident The Hindu
M Suresh (34), a mechanic, was killed after a parked earthmover accidentally moved and
its wheels ran over him on Wednesday.
The accident occurred at Anaikadu. Police sources said the earthmover moved on its own
as the handbrakes were not applied properly.


14-year-old kills 2 during joyride on
Ahmedabad streets - TOI

At 2am, he unleashed a reign of terror on the roads of Behrampura where he rammed the car into a bystander
and two scooterists before hitting pavement dwellers sleeping outside their hutments.

AHMEDABAD: A 14-year-old boy, Rafiq (name changed to protect identity), killed two
and injured five pavement dwellers early on Wednesday when he sneaked out of his
house in his father's car for a joyride with his friends.

At 2am, he unleashed a reign of terror on the roads of Behrampura where he rammed
the car into a bystander and two scooterists before hitting pavement dwellers sleeping
outside their hutments.

"Salim Rashidkhan, 45 and Rehana Shaikh, 40, both residents of the Behrampura
hutments, died on the way to hospital. The five injured who have been admitted include
two children - Faizan Mustufa Shaikh, 9 and Simran Shaikh, 3," said officials of VS
hospital.

Eyewitnesses claimed that Rafiq was driving at breakneck speed - about 100 or 120
kilometres per hour - when he lost control of the car. "The impact was such that five
shanties were smashed, and a bike, scooter and a cycle parked nearby too were
damaged," added Nisar Shaikh, a local resident.

Barely four feet in height, Rafiq, a class 9 student of a school near Shah-e-Alam, sped
away from the accident spot in his car which was badly damaged, with tyres flattened in
the impact. "He drove back home and told his parents about the accident. His family
tried to reason with the shanty dwellers but they were met with an angry crowd which
had gathered at the spot and Rafiq's family members slipped away from the spot," said
Shaikh.



Police sources said the boy's family brought him to the Danilimda police station at 4 am.
"We have booked the boy under section 304 part (2) of IPC and have taken statements of
two other teenagers who were with him during the joyride. We are also investigating
whether the teenager's father was negligent enough to hand over the car keys to his son,"
said Moin Shaikh, police inspector of Danilimda police station.

He added, "The boy's father is an externed historysheeter and is accused in numerous
criminal offenses which include theft and loot. We will book him too under the Motor
Vehicle's Act if found negligent. We have learnt that he had violated his externment and
was in the city when the incident took place. We are hunting for him."

Plane crashes while landing in Taiwan,
killing 47 - TOI
TAIPEI (Taiwan): A plane attempting to land in stormy weather crashed on a small
Taiwanese island late Wednesday, killing 47 people and wrecking houses and cars on the
ground.

The ATR-72 operated by Taiwan's TransAsia Airways was carrying 58 passengers and
crew when it crashed on Penghu in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China,
authorities said.

The plane was arriving from the city of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.

Two people aboard the plane were French citizens and the rest Taiwanese, Transport
Minister Yeh Kuang-shih told reporters.

The twin-engine turboprop crashed while making a second landing attempt, Yeh said.

The crash of flight GE222 was Taiwan's first fatal air accident in 12 years and came after
Typhoon Matmo passed across the island, causing heavy rains that continued into
Wednesday night.

Some 200 airline flights had been canceled earlier in the day due to rain and strong
winds.



The official death toll was 47, according to Wen Chia-hung, spokesman for the Penghu
disaster response center. He said the 11 other people were injured.

Authorities were looking for one person who might have been in a house that was struck
by wreckage, Wen said. A car was crushed by a toppled wall but Wen said no one was in
it.



President Ma Ying-jeou called it "a very sad day in the history of Taiwanese aviation,"
according to a spokesman for his office, Ma Wei-kuo, the government's Central News
Agency reported.

The plane came down in the village of Xixi outside the airport. Television stations
showed rescue workers pulling bodies from wreckage. Photos in local media showed
firefighters using flashlights to look through the wreckage, and buildings damaged by
debris.



Penghu, a scenic chain of 64 islets, is a popular tourist site about 150 kilometers (90
miles) southwest of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei.

Residents said they heard thunder and then what sounded like an explosion, the news
agency said. It cited the Central Weather Bureau as saying there were thunderstorms in
the area.

"I heard a loud bang," a local resident was quoted as saying by television station TVBS. "I
thought it was thunder, and then I heard another bang and I saw a fireball not far away
from my house."

About 200 military personnel were sent to help recover the people who were on the
plane, Taiwanese Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Luo Shou-he said, according to
the news agency.

The ministry said military vehicles and ambulances were rushing people to hospitals and
an air force rescue team was on standby to transfer survivors to Taiwan's main island if
needed for treatment, the agency reported.

The flight left Kaohsiung at 4:53 p.m. for Magong on Penghu, according to the head of
Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration, Jean Shen. The plane lost contact with the
tower at 7:06 p.m. after saying it would make a second landing attempt.

Visibility as the plane approached was 1,600 meters (one mile), which met standards for
landing, and two flights had landed before GE222, one at 5:34 p.m. and the other at 6:57
p.m., the aviation agency reported. Shen said the plane was 14 years old.

The Central News Agency, citing the county fire department, said it appeared heavy rain
reduced visibility and the pilot was forced to pull up and make the second landing
attempt.

Taiwan was battered by Matmo overnight Tuesday, and the Central Weather Bureau
warned of heavy rain Wednesday evening, even after the center of the storm had moved
west to mainland China.

In Taipei, TransAsia Airways' general manager, Hsu Yi-Tsung, bowed deeply before
reporters and tearfully apologized for the accident, the news agency said.

"As TransAsia is responsible for this matter, we apologize. We apologize," Hsu said.



Hsu said the carrier would take relatives of passengers to Magong on Thursday morning
and would spare no effort in the rescue and in handling the aftermath, the report said.

Taiwan's last major aviation disaster also was near Penghu. In 2002, a China Airlines
Boeing 747 broke apart in midair and crashed into the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225
people aboard.

In October 2013, a Lao Airlines ATR-72 crashed during a heavy storm as it approached
Pakse Airport in southern Laos, killing all 49 people on board.