Taiwan Airlines accident near Hualien
Britten-Norman BN-2A-8 Islander · The Taiwan Airlines accident near Hualien occurred on 13 June 1981
From Taitung Airport (TTT) to Taipei, Taiwan
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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Britten-Norman BN-2A-8 Islander
- Aircraft type
- Britten Norman BN-2
- 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-11108
- Operator
- Taiwan Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Taitung Airport (TTT)To Taipei, Taiwan
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Taiwan Airlines accident near Hualien occurred on 13 June 1981. On that day a Britten-Norman BN-2A-8 Islander, which was operating a domestic scheduled flight of the Taiwanese regional airline Taiwan Airlines from Taitung to Taipei with a stopover in Hualien, crashed a few minutes after takeoff on the second leg. Both occupants of the aircraft were killed in the accident.
Accident sequence
The flight was conducted during a typhoon. After the aircraft had taken off following a stopover in Hualien, it encountered severe turbulence during the climb. The pilots lost control of the aircraft, which finally crashed to the ground and smashed into a cliff located above a forest, killing both occupants. The crash site was 12 kilometres north-west of Hualien.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Taiwan Airlines bei Hualien” (revision 270344899, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall der Taiwan Airlines bei Hualien
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 270344899 · 2026-09-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q111145293
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall der Taiwan Airlines bei Hualien" (page 12156876, revision 270344899), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.