China Airlines Flight 227 crash
Douglas DC-3 · The China Airlines Flight 227 crash involved a China Airlines flight from Hualien Airport via Taitung Fengnian Airport to Kaohsiung Airport
From Taitung Airport (TTT) to Kaohsiung International Airport (KHH)
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
- 24 · 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
- 0
- 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
Douglas DC-3
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- 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-309
- Operator
- China Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 24
- Route
- From Taitung Airport (TTT)To Kaohsiung International Airport (KHH)
Cause areas
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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 China Airlines Flight 227 crash involved a China Airlines flight from Hualien Airport via Taitung Fengnian Airport to Kaohsiung Airport.
Investigation and cause
Cause
While flying over mountainous terrain, China Airlines Flight 227 suddenly encountered a downdraft, which caused its altitude to drop suddenly, and it struck a mountain.
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Sources
Chinese Wikipedia article: 中華航空227號班機空難
- Article
- 中華航空227號班機空難
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 89493127 · 2025-10-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17500288
- 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
- zh Wikipedia article "中華航空227號班機空難" (page 4063897, revision 89493127), 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.