TransAsia starts pilot retraining after deadly crash

February 07, 2015 15:47

TransAsia Airways cancelled dozens of flights today, the first day of a pilot retraining programme, as rescuers retrieved four more bodies from its second deadly crash in Taiwan in seven months.

Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration ordered all the airline's staff who fly ATR planes to take tests on operating the aircraft after it emerged the pilots may have inexplicably shut off one of the engines before Flight GE235 went down last week.

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