Singapore Seems to Accept TASC's FindingThe Singapore government seems to accept the finding by the Taiwan Aviation Safety Council who said that the ill-fated SQ 006 aircraft have taken off on the wrong runway before it crashed Tuesday.In a press release issued at 6:45 p.m. this afternoon, Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said that "this is a highly significant finding that the Singapore Government views very seriously." A statement released at a press conference in Taipei earlier Friday by Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council Managing Director Kay Yong indicated that the pilot could have taken off on runway 05R instead of the designated 05L and the error played a major role in the crash of the Boeing 747-400, which led to the death of 81 people. The Singapore ministry also expressed its eagerness to know the cause to the fatal mistake, saying that "it is not clear what factors and prevailing conditions could have caused this error." "Our investigation team and two senior CAAS officials are already in Taipei. They have been instructed to cooperate fully with the Taiwanese authorities, to leave no stone unturned in searching for the cause of the accident," the ministry added. The ministry also stated that Singapore will take all possible actions the investigation team may recommend to prevent a recurrence of this accident. |
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