Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 116 accident

Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 116 was a flight from Kaohsiung International Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport. On 25 October 1993, a Far Eastern Air Transport MD-82 operating this flight had to turn back because of a left engine failure; during the forced landing it ran off the runway, fell into a ditch and scraped the airport perimeter wall. Although no one was killed, the aircraft was beyond repair.

Aftermath of the accident

1. Because B-2603 and B-28003 crashed one after the other, Far Eastern Air Transport decided that all future aircraft registrations would permanently skip the suffix 03. Since Far Eastern Air Transport had never had even-numbered suffixes, and the suffix 9 had already been skipped because of 2 crashes, the suffixes still available for Far Eastern Air Transport registrations were 1, 3 (13 and above), 5 and 7.

2. After the aircraft was towed away from the accident site, Kaohsiung International Airport repaired the damaged wall into a new wall.

3. After the accident, residents of Xiaogang District said they hoped Kaohsiung International Airport would be relocated, to safeguard residential safety.

Government agencies and schools near the accident

1. The government agencies near this accident were the Xiaogang Precinct of the Kaohsiung City Police Department, the Xiaogang Squad of the Kaohsiung City Fire Bureau, the Kaohsiung Branch of the Aviation Police Bureau of the National Police Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, the Gaosong Police Station of the Xiaogang Precinct of the Kaohsiung City Police Department, and the Chunghwa Post Gaosong Post Office. Notably, within 100 metres of the aircraft accident site was a petrol station operated by the Chinese Petroleum Corporation (later renamed CPC Corporation, Taiwan) (on Gaofeng Road, Gaosong Village, Xiaogang District).

2. The nearby schools were Kaohsiung Municipal Taiping Elementary School*, Pingding Elementary School in Xiaogang District, Kaohsiung, Qingshan Elementary School in Xiaogang District, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung Municipal Mingyi Junior High School, Kaohsiung Municipal Zhongshan Junior High School, Kaohsiung Municipal Xiaogang Senior High School, Kaohsiung Private Kao Feng Industrial and Home Economics Vocational School, and the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, which was then being planned.

3. Because of the geographical relationships listed above, and because the wall scraped by the aircraft is located in Gaosong Village, Xiaogang District, this accident is also called the "Gaosong accident".