Taiwan's Civil Aviation Administration has released to press that after an investigation that a total of 3 flights suffered hard landing while 9 flights were subjected to Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) violations during last year's Typhoon Kangrui that hit Taiwan disrupting flights and schedules.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has determined that the hard landing meets the scope of operation, and the part that has FDTL violation of 14 hours belongs to the China Airlines Flights, which requires the operator to improve within a time limit, and will also study and award fines in the future.
The CAAC announced that the results of the flight survey during Typhoon Kangrui, and the three flights that landed were one each at Songshan, Taoyuan and Kaohsiung airports, of which China Airlines was operated by Songshan Airlines, and Star Airlines was operated by Taoyuan and Kaohsiung.
The CAAC said today that it investigated 503 flights during the period of Typhoon Kangrui from the evening of October 30 to 31, 2024, and reviewed the weather data, wind speed, wind direction and crosswind speed conditions, as well as relevant information such as operating restrictions, on-board fuel capacity, and crew flight time according to each aircraft type.
During the investigation, the CAAC also invited national airlines to jointly review on November 13 last year, requiring the company to improve the risk prevention and dispatch decision-making, dynamically assess the arrangement of transfer or postponement of take-off, take the initiative to provide information on the weather and airport in the air, add alternate landing stations, pay attention to post-typhoon dispatch operations, implement flight crew training and aircraft inspection, and implement conservative dispatch operations in accordance with the resolutions of the meeting.
The investigation found that the three flights that the hard landing occurred at Songshan, Taoyuan and Kaohsiung airports respectively, of which the airline of Songshan flight was China Airlines, and the airline of Taoyuan and Kaohsiung flights was Star Airlines.
The hard landing flight was found to be due to the instantaneous wind shear caused by the typhoon's micro-burst airflow, which made it difficult for the crew to operate, and the initial judgment was that it still met the operation restrictions of the aircraft, and the re-landed flight was not damaged after inspection.
In this regard, the CAAC has requested the industry to continue to strengthen the crew's crosswind, wind cut and gust operation training.
For the part of the 9 overtime flights for Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) violation, Taiwan's civil aviation department said that 7 of them were transferred to the alternate landing station airport or landed in Taoyuan, due to waiting for ground staff and other factors or the wind speed was too strong to open the hatch caused overtime, which is force majeure.
As for the crew members on duty for more than 14 hours, the 2 flights are all China Airlines aircraft, the Civil Aviation Administration will also study the overtime part of the China Airlines 2 case to make a fine, the Civil Aviation Administration said that in addition to the civil aviation law will be punished with a warning, the follow-up will be in accordance with the procedural review of the judgment, can be fined 600,000 to 3 million yuan. CAAC said,
"For flights that exceed 14 hours during the flight duty period, the Civil Aviation Administration of China will not only give a warning in accordance with the Civil Aviation Law, but will also adjudicate it after procedural review."
Civil Aviation Administration of China said that:
"The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) will also continue to require compliance with bad weather practices and implement a conservative dispatch policy."
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