TransAsia offers compensation payment of US$473,000 to each crash victim

TransAsia has offered NT$14.9 million (US$473,000) in compensation to the family of each deceased person on board flight GE235, which crashed into Keelung River in northern Taipei on February 4.The total compensation figure includes emergency relief funds of NT$200,000 (US$6,300) already provided by the airline to the families affected, as well as a funeral allowance of NT$1.2 million (US$38,000). Data from the aircraft’s flight recorders indicate that the aircraft plane lost power in one engine just after take-off but the crew shut down the other working engine and attempted to restart it shortly before the aircraft came down. This action