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Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)

Mayday

Season 12Episode 3Aired 2012-08-17
Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)

Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)

On 31 October 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei while attempting to take off on the wrong runway in a typhoon. 83 of the 179 passengers and crew members perish. Investigators concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash.