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style="padding-bottom:0.3em;">Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg/250px-N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg/375px-N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg/500px-N9058U_Boeing_737-222_United_Airlines.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="659" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.3em;">The aircraft involved in the accident, while still in service with United Airlines, in 1974</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #082567; color: white">Accident</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">22 August 1981<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1981-08-22</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Summary</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Fatigue_(material)" title="Fatigue (material)">Metal fatigue cracking</a> and severe corrosion, leading to <a href="/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression" title="Uncontrolled decompression">explosive decompression</a> and in-flight break-up</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Site</th><td class="infobox-data flabel location" style="line-height:1.3em;">Near <a href="/wiki/Sanyi,_Miaoli" title="Sanyi, Miaoli">Sanyi Township</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miaoli_County" title="Miaoli County">Miaoli County</a>, Taiwan</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #082567; color: white">Aircraft</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Aircraft type</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">Boeing 737-222</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Operator</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Far_Eastern_Air_Transport" title="Far Eastern Air Transport">Far Eastern Air Transport</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">IATA flight No.</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">FE103</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">ICAO flight No.</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">FEA103</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Call sign</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">FAR EASTERN 103</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_registration" title="Aircraft registration">Registration</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">B-2603</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Flight origin</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Taipei_Songshan_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Taipei Songshan Airport">Taipei Songshan Airport</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Destination</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Kaohsiung_International_Airport" title="Kaohsiung International Airport">Kaohsiung International Airport</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Occupants</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">110</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Passengers</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">102</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Crew</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">8</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Fatalities</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">110</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Survivors</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">0</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103</b> was a flight from Taiwan Taipei <a href="/wiki/Songshan_Airport" title="Songshan Airport">Songshan Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kaohsiung_International_Airport" title="Kaohsiung International Airport">Kaohsiung International Airport</a> that crashed on 22 August 1981, killing all 110 people on board. The Boeing 737-222 aircraft disintegrated in midair and crashed in the township of <a href="/wiki/Sanyi,_Miaoli" title="Sanyi, Miaoli">Sanyi, Miaoli</a>. It is also called the <b>Sanyi Air Disaster</b>. The crash is the third-deadliest aviation accident on the Taiwanese soil, behind <a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_676" title="China Airlines Flight 676">China Airlines Flight 676</a> and <a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611" title="China Airlines Flight 611">China Airlines Flight 611</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ASN_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ASN-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG/220px-The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG/330px-The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG/440px-The_Cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000547.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>The cenotaph of the Far East Air Transport Flight 103 accident</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG/220px-The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG/330px-The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG/440px-The_cenotaph_of_Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103_Accident-P1000551.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Monument listing the names of the victims</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aircraft">Aircraft</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The aircraft involved was a Boeing 737-222 registered as B-2603 with line number 151 and manufacturer's serial number 19939.<sup id="cite_ref-ASN_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ASN-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The aircraft had previously lost <a href="/wiki/Cabin_pressurization" title="Cabin pressurization">cabin pressure</a> on 5 August; and earlier on the day of the crash, it had departed Songshan Airport, but the crew aborted the flight 10 minutes later for the same reason. After repairs were made, the aircraft departed Songshan Airport again bound for Kaohsiung International Airport. 14 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft suffered an explosive decompression and disintegrated. The wreckage was scattered across an area 4 miles (6 km) long, located some 94 miles (151 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a>. The nose section landed in Sanyi Township, <a href="/wiki/Miaoli_County" title="Miaoli County">Miaoli County</a>. Other debris landed in the townships of <a href="/wiki/Yuanli" title="Yuanli">Yuanli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tongluo" title="Tongluo">Tongluo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tongxiao" title="Tongxiao">Tongxiao</a>. Of the 110 people on board, one passenger was found alive but died on the way to a hospital; in the end, no one aboard survived.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the accident, due to it occurring in a mountainous region, road traffic was backed up. The remains of the victims were driven to the <a href="/wiki/Shengxing_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Shengxing railway station">Shengxing railway station</a>, from where they were transported by train.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cause">Cause</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cause"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although early speculation indicated that the crash was caused by an explosive device, an investigation by the Republic of China Civil Aeronautics Board concluded that severe <a href="/wiki/Corrosion" title="Corrosion">corrosion</a> led to a pressure-hull rupture. The severe corrosion was due to the many pressurization flight cycles the aircraft had experienced, and that cracks produced were probably undetected.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victims">Victims</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Victims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Nationality </th> <th>Passengers </th> <th>Crew </th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr> <td>Taiwan </td> <td>82 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>90 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Japan </td> <td>18 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>18 </td></tr> <tr> <td>United States </td> <td>2 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Total </td> <td>102 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>110 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_victims">Notable victims</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notable victims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kuniko_Muk%C5%8Dda" title="Kuniko Mukōda">Kuniko Mukōda</a>, a Japanese TV screenwriter, was heading to Kaohsiung for a festival.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_103&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123" title="Japan Air Lines Flight 123">Japan Air Lines Flight 123</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611" title="China Airlines Flight 611">China Airlines Flight 611</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243" title="Aloha Airlines Flight 243">Aloha Airlines Flight 243</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Express_Flight_2574" title="Continental Express Flight 2574">Continental Express Flight 2574</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BOAC_Flight_781" title="BOAC Flight 781">BOAC Flight 781</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalk%27s_Ocean_Airways_Flight_101" title="Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101">Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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<div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airlines_Flight_326" title="Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326">Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Mar 28</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Garuda_Indonesian_Airways_Flight_206" title="Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206">Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">May 2</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aer_Lingus_Flight_164" title="Aer Lingus Flight 164">Aer Lingus Flight 164</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">May 7</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Austral_L%C3%ADneas_A%C3%A9reas_Flight_901" title="Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901">Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Jun 14</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_498" title="Aeroflot Flight 498">Aeroflot Flight 498</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Jun 26</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Dan-Air_Flight_240" title="Dan-Air Flight 240">Dan-Air Flight 240</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Jul 18</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1981_Armenia_mid-air_collision" title="1981 Armenia mid-air collision">Armenia mid-air collision</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Jul 20</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Somali_Airlines_Flight_40" title="Somali Airlines Flight 40">Somali Airlines Flight 40</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Jul 27</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aerom%C3%A9xico_Flight_230" title="Aeroméxico Flight 230">Aeroméxico Flight 230</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Jul 31</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1981_Panamanian_Air_Force_Twin_Otter_crash" title="1981 Panamanian Air Force Twin Otter crash">Panamanian Air Force Twin Otter crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 9</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1981_Barrington_Tops_Cessna_210_disappearance" title="1981 Barrington Tops Cessna 210 disappearance">Barrington Tops Cessna 210 disappearance</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 13</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1981_Bristow_Helicopters_Westland_Wessex_crash" title="1981 Bristow Helicopters Westland Wessex crash">G-ASWI ditching</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 19</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_(1981)" title="Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)">Gulf of Sidra incident</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 22</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 24</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_811" title="Aeroflot Flight 811">Aeroflot Flight 811</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 26</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aeropesca_Colombia_Flight_221" title="Aeropesca Colombia Flight 221">Aeropesca Colombia Flight 221</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Sep 18</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1981_Zheleznogorsk_mid-air_collision" title="1981 Zheleznogorsk mid-air collision">Zheleznogorsk mid-air collision</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Sep 22</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_935" title="Eastern Air Lines Flight 935">Eastern Air Lines Flight 935</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Sep 29</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_423" title="Indian Airlines Flight 423">Indian Airlines Flight 423</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Oct 6</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/NLM_CityHopper_Flight_431" title="NLM CityHopper Flight 431">NLM CityHopper Flight 431</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Nov 8</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aerom%C3%A9xico_Flight_110" title="Aeroméxico Flight 110">Aeroméxico Flight 110</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Nov 17</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_3603" title="Aeroflot Flight 3603">Aeroflot Flight 3603</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Dec 1</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Inex-Adria_Aviopromet_Flight_1308" title="Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308">Inex-Adria Flight 1308</a></div></div> </div> <div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Template:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_1980" title="Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1980">1980   ◄</a><span class="nowrap">   </span> <a href="/wiki/Template:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_1982" title="Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1982">►   1982</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_Taiwan_(Republic_of_China)_post-1949" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_206" title="China Airlines Flight 206">China Airlines Flight 206</a> (August 1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_825" title="China Airlines Flight 825">China Airlines Flight 825</a> (November 1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Far_Eastern_Air_Transport_Flight_134" title="Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 134">Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 134</a> (July 1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103</a> (August 1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_2265" title="China Airlines Flight 2265">China Airlines Flight 2265</a> (February 1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_204" title="China Airlines Flight 204">China Airlines Flight 204</a> (October 1989)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_358" title="China Airlines Flight 358">China Airlines Flight 358</a> (December 1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_510A" title="TransAsia Airways Flight 510A">TransAsia Airways Flight 510A</a> (January 1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Formosa_Airlines_Flight_7613" title="Formosa Airlines Flight 7613">Formosa Airlines Flight 7613</a> (April 1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Formosa_Airlines_Flight_7601" title="Formosa Airlines Flight 7601">Formosa Airlines Flight 7601</a> (August 1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_676" title="China Airlines Flight 676">China Airlines Flight 676</a> (February 1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Formosa_Airlines_Flight_7623" title="Formosa Airlines Flight 7623">Formosa Airlines Flight 7623</a> (March 1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Uni_Air_Flight_873" title="Uni Air Flight 873">Uni Air Flight 873</a> (August 1999)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_006" title="Singapore Airlines Flight 006">Singapore Airlines Flight 006</a> (October 2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611" title="China Airlines Flight 611">China Airlines Flight 611</a> (May 2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_791" title="TransAsia Airways Flight 791">TransAsia Airways Flight 791</a> (December 2002)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_222" title="TransAsia Airways Flight 222">TransAsia Airways Flight 222</a> (July 2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235" title="TransAsia Airways Flight 235">TransAsia Airways Flight 235</a> (February 2015)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2020_ROCAF_UH-60M_crash" title="2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash">2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash</a> (January 2020)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>For accidents and incidents in the Republic of China pre-1949, see <a href="/wiki/Template:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_China" title="Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in China">Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in China</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a 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