Dear James and Walter Right now, this is the position. The report is going to be released next month and it will blame the pilot for using the wrong runway. No surprise there. But the other question is was he mislead into using the wrong runway because of wrong/missing signage, lighting, etc? This has not been revealed. Part of the problem of getting to the bottom of this was while Singapore Airlines was allowed to take part in the investigation, it wasn't allowed to be part of the team that churned out the report. International air regulators deem that SQ should be in that phase but since Taiwan isn't a sovereign country, such rules do not apply, so they say. Is it a can of worms? Yes, says SQ as they have been shut out of the major part of the report and therefore may have to take total blame. Incidentally, the wrong runway the SQ plane took was reopened last month as a dedicated taxiway. The broken white lines that indicated runway status have been redrawn as a continuous yellow line to indicate taxiway status. It has also been renamed NC. The yellow lines were also outlined in blue in accordance with ICAO standards. Before the crash, the taxiway had both taxiway lights and runway lights, as it was used as a taxiway as well as a reserve runway. I can't comment on the prison terms as I don't know of such. Could you enlighten me on this? I know the cockpit crew were held in Taipei after the accident and only released after protracted negotiations. Russell At 04:51 PM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote: >Good question. I would like to find out also. Last I heard, I believe they >were required to be within an earshot for contact. But this was shortly >after the accident. I know the Asian countries take the pilots' actions in >accidents as criminal acts and and guilty verdicts dictate possible prison >terms. > >Walter >DCA >----- Original Message ----- >From: "www.airlinesimulation.com" <airline@airlinesimulation.com> >To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 16:42 >Subject: SQ/TPE > > > > Does anyone know where I can find some information on the final outcome = > > (if yet final) of the investigation into the SQ TPE accident and the = > > fate of the pilots? > > > > Thanks, > > > > James > > airlinesimulation.com > >