Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 134
Vickers Viscount 837 · Downdraft during landing
From Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN) to Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 27 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 75
- Survivors
- 48
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 48
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Vickers Viscount 837
- Aircraft type
- Vickers Viscount 837
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- B-2029
- Operator
- Far Eastern Air Transport
- Onboard fatalities
- 27
- Route
- From Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN)To Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA)
Cause areas
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Taipei Songshan International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 134 was a scheduled domestic flight from Hualien Airport to Taipei-Songshan Airport. On July 31, 1975, the Vickers Viscount 837D crashed into the runway during a storm while on approach. 27 out of the 75 occupants onboard were killed on impact, there were 48 survivors all of them made it out with injuries.
It is the 3rd deadliest accident of the airline and being the 5th accident of the airline.
Accident
While the Viscount aircraft was on approach to Songshan, the aircraft encountered bad weather including a thunderstorm which caused rain falls and low wind-shear. The aircraft then got hit by downdraft, causing the aircraft to stall and crash possibly 300m away from the threshold of the runway.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The safety board concluded that the aircraft had lost control and stalled when it was hit by low wind-shear.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 134
- Revision
- 1339317326 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q15941207
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 134" (page 77745376, revision 1339317326)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.