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This is the story of singapore airlines flight 006. The 31st of october 2000 on the island of taiwan it was a dark and windy night. Flight 006 was hoping to get airborne soon as a typhoon was bearing down on the island. The pilots had been flying the plane since the day before and they had been all over the world from singapore to los angeles and taipei. At 9:53 pm that night the pilots completed their pre flight briefings and picked up the NOTAMS or notice to airmen for the night, it contained important information that someone flying here should know. At 10:57 pm the pilots got clearance from ATC, the ATIS transmission could be heard in the background, telling them that the departure runway was 5L Wind was at 020 at 36 gusting to 52 and visibility was 450 meters or 1500 feet, the rain beat down on the airport marking the arrival of the typhoon.
the captain was the one flying and At 11:05 pm the pilots got permission to taxi and they were given their taxi clearance ““Singapore six, taxi to Runway zero six, via Taxiway, correction, Runway zero five left, via Taxiway Sierra Sierra, West Cross, and November Papa.”, The copilot said ““I missed that man, what is it,” the captain repeated the clearance for him.
After this the crew engaged in chatter about how they'd get to runway 5L, they also talked about alternate airports because Hong Kong and Kaohsiung were closed. As they taxied the captain said “a lot of rudder work man here...,am going to go very slow here because you going get skid.”, The plane was on the ground and the wind was so strong that the pilots had a bit of trouble with the wind. As they taxied onto taxiway november papa they were transferred over to the tower. “Singapore six good evening, Taipei tower hold short runway five left.” The first officer acknowledged. The first officer said “next one is november one” referring to the taxiway that they had to be on to get to runway 5L, ok second right the captain responded, the first officer agreed. As they taxied the tower gave them the all clear. “Singapore six, Runway zero five left, wind zero two zero at two eight gust to five zero, cleared for takeoff.”
At11:15 pm the crew were done with the takeoff checklist and they made the right turn onto the runway, they were very careful as the rain had made everything really slippery. With them on the runway the first officer said the PVD or the para visual display hadnt lined up yet. To which the captain replied yeah we gotta line up first. But even when they had lined up the PVD was not aligned but the captain said that they could see the runway and so it wasnt that big of an issue.
At 11:16 and 44 seconds they started their takeoff roll, the first officer called out 80 knots. The captain said “something there” which was followed by the first sounds of impact. Flight 006 had collided with construction equipment, they had not taken off from runway 5L. The right gear slammed into some construction equipment and the left landing gear went over a pit in the runway blowing a tire. The plane then headed straight into an excavator damaging the lower left side of the plane. The stabilizer was hit by debris and failed. There was a bit of rebar on the left side of the runway and engine number one struck that, the plane now started to yaw to the left. The plane then hit two steam rollers and broke into two the right wing was sheared off.
The plane hit the equipment 4000 feet from the runway threshold, the plane broke into two and it skidded along the runway spewing broken bits of debris everywhere.Unfortunately 179 people onboard, only 96 people made it. This is todate the only incident for singapore airlines which resulted in fatalities.
