2014年11月12日 星期三

week4-復興航空墜機-TransAsia Airways plane crash, Penghu

TransAsia Airways plane crashes in typhoon-hit Taiwan, killing 47

(Reuters) - A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan on Wednesday, killing 47 people and setting buildings on fire, officials said.
The plane, a 70-seat ATR 72, crashed near the runway on the island of Penghu, west of the mainland, with 54 passengers and four crew on board, they said. No one was killed or hurt in the buildings.
Eleven injured people on the plane were taken to hospital, the government said.
The aircraft took off from Taiwan's southern city of Kaohsiung, headed for the island of Makong, but crash-landed in Huxi township of Penghu County, the main island of the chain also known as the Pescadores.
"It was thunderstorm conditions during the crash," said Hsi Wen-guang, a spokesman for the Penghu County Government Fire Bureau.
"From the crash site we sent 11 people to hospital with injuries. A few empty apartment buildings adjacent to the runway caught fire, but no one was inside at the time and the fire was extinguished." About 100 firefighters were sent to the scene, as well as 152 military personnel and 255 police, he added.
According to an official at the Civil Aeronautics Administration, air traffic control reported that the inclement weather at the time of the crash did not exceed international regulations for landing.
Visibility was 1,600 meters and the cloud cover was as low as 600 meters, added the official, who declined to be identified.
Television networks aired footage of TransAsia's president, Chooi Yee-choong, bowing in apology.
"We express our deepest apologies to everyone for this unfortunate event."
Typhoon Matmo hit Taiwan on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools. It passed the island and headed into China, downgraded from typhoon to tropical storm.
TransAsia Airways is a Taiwan-based airline with a fleet of around 23 Airbus and ATR aircraft, operating chiefly short-haul flights on domestic routes as well as to mainlandChina, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia, among its Asian destinations.
(Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-not given
WHEN-Wednesday
WHAT-A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan
WHY-a typhoon hit 
WHERE-Penghu
HOW-killing 47 people and setting buildings on fire
Keywords：
1.turboprop:渦輪螺旋槳飛機
2.bureau:局
3.adjacent:相鄰
4.extinguish:熄滅
5.inclement:惡劣的
6.chiefly:主要是
7.short-haul:短途
8.domestic:國內的
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2014年11月5日 星期三

week3-加州大學城慘案-University of California, Santa Barbara, Elliot Rodger

crimesider

Taiwanese among six killed in California

SANTA BARBARA:Hong Cheng-yuan was the roommate of suspected killer Elliot Rodger. The foreign ministry is still checking whether another victim is Taiwanese

By Jake Chung  /  Staff writer, with CNA and AP
US authorities have confirmed that at least one of the victims in a killing spree last week in California was a Taiwanese student, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anna Kao (高安) said yesterday.
Representatives from the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Exchange Office (TECRO) branch in Los Angeles has “established direct contact with local authorities” and the University of California at Santa Barbara to offer its assistance, Kao added.
On Friday night, Elliot Rodger, 22, allegedly stabbed to death his two roommates — Hong Cheng-yuan (洪晟元), also known as James, 20, and George Chen, 19 — and a visitor, Wang Weihan, 20, from Fremont, California, in their apartment near the university campus.
Rodger then drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house on campus and shot three women on the lawn.
Katherine Cooper, 22, and Veronika Weiss, 19 — both students at the university — were killed. The third women, as yet unidentified, is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds.
Rodger drove on to a local deli, went inside and shot and killed Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20.
He injured 13 more either with gunshots or a car that he used as a battering ram against bicyclists and skateboarders.
The killing spree claimed seven lives, including Rodger’s.
The Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Office said Rodger took his own life after the rampage.
US media reports said Rodger had uploaded multiple YouTube videos, including one, which has since been removed, titled Day of Retribution, promising to have “his revenge against humanity” — particularly the women whom he claims rejected him.
Hong, who identified himself on Facebook as having grown up in Taipei, had graduated from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California, the TECRO office in Los Angeles said.
The office is still seeking confirmation with the university whether Chen was also Taiwanese.

Structure of the Lead:

WHO-Hong Cheng-yuan
WHEN-yesterday
WHAT-US authorities have confirmed that at least one of the victims in a killing spree last week in California was a Taiwanese student
WHY-not given
WHERE-not given
HOW-The foreign ministry is still checking whether another victim is Taiwanese

Keywords：
1.ministry:(政府的)部
2.killing spree:殺戮行為
3.allegedly:據宣稱
4.sorority:女學生聯誼會
5.campus:校園，校區
6.deli:熟食店
7.claim:奪走(生命)

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