Yung Shing Airlines C404 accident
Unknown · Cause unknown
From Kaohsiung Siaogang Airport, Taiwan to Wang-an Airport, Penghu, 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
- 12 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 1
- 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
- 1
- 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
Unknown
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Kaohsiung, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Yung Shing Airlines C404 accident, also known as the Caoya air crash, involved a Cessna 404 light airliner, airframe number B-12206, belonging to Yung Shing Airlines of Taiwan (later renamed Formosa Airlines, now merged into Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines), which took off from Kaohsiung Siaogang Airport at 9:02 am on 27 June 1989 bound for Wang-an, Penghu, but 4 minutes later crashed into a seven-storey apartment building under construction near Lane 36, Fogong Road, Qianzhen District, quickly catching fire, killing 12 people and seriously injuring 1 (11 passengers and 1 pilot were killed on the spot; only 1 passenger survived).|
Investigation and cause
Cause of the crash
According to the report published at the time by the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China and the Flight Safety Council, the cause of the crash was classified as unknown. The Cessna aircraft involved crashed at Lane 36, Fogong Road, Qianzhen District, one kilometre from runway 09 of Kaohsiung International Airport, Taiwan, killing 12 people.
According to residents of the Qianzhen District market at the time, the aircraft's landing gear was retracted at the time; it was not landing. Residents said in Hokkien: "It's flying very low! Very low! It's about to hit!"
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “永興航空公司C404飛機事故” (revision 80261741, 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
Chinese Wikipedia article: 永興航空公司C404飛機事故
- Article
- 永興航空公司C404飛機事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 80261741 · 2023-12-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q19852954
- 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 "永興航空公司C404飛機事故" (page 4665186, revision 80261741), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An airliner of Yung Shing Airlines flying passengers from Kaohsiung to Wang-an, Penghu: an airline passenger flight. The article: "a Cessna 404 light airliner, airframe number B-12206, belonging to Yung Shing Airlines of Taiwan"
- 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.