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 02.01.2020/
08:07 LT
Wulei District, New Taipei City - Taiwan
On 2 January 2020, a
Black Hawk helicopter of the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) Air
Rescue Group crashed in the Wulai District of New Taipei, Taiwan, while
executing a VIP transport mission. General Shen Yi-ming, Republic of
China's Chief of the General Staff (CGS), along with 7 other personnel
on board, died in the crash.
The Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk (933)
was taking off for a routine mission to visit service personnel
in Dong'aoling Radar Station, Su'ao, Yilan county. The helicopter lost
contact with Songshan Air Base at 8:07 AM, thirteen minutes after taking
off and crashed into a mountainside.
General Shen Yi-ming, Chief of the General
Staff, was on board the helicopter along with seven other officers and a
senior enlisted adviser from the General Staff Headquarters, Ministry of
National Defense (MND-GSH), a military correspondent, and three crew
members. Shen and seven others including two Major Generals were killed,
while five others were injured.
 Investigation
During a news conference on 2 January,
General Hsiung Hou-chi, Commanding General of the Air Force, stated that
the government has set up a task force to investigate the cause of the
crash. The flight recorders of the aircraft were recovered on 3 January
and sent to the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board. Proprietary hardware
within the flight recorders were delivered to Sikorsky Aircraft.
Obviously foggy weather and human factors were behind
the air accident.
On 21 July 2020, the Control Yuan announced
that Jen I-wei and Chou Shih-kai, both of whom were posted to the Air
Force Weather Wing's No. 8 Base at the time of the crash, had been
impeached. It was reported in January 2022 that the Judicial Yuan's
Disciplinary Court had barred Jen from working in the public sector for
two years. No penalty was issued to Chou, due to insufficient evidence
against him.
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The eight who perished in the crash include:
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Chief of the
General Staff Shen Yi-ming
-
Office of the
Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Intelligence under the defense
ministry Major General Hung Hung-chun (洪鴻鈞)
-
Political
Warfare Bureau Deputy Director, Major General Yu Chin-wen (于親文)
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Lieutenant
Colonel Yeh Chien-i (葉建儀)
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Co-pilot
Captain Liu Chen-fu (劉鎮富)
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Chief Engineer
Chief Petty Officer Hsu Hung-pin (許鴻彬)
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Chief
Inspector General Sergeant Han Cheng-hung (韓正宏)
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Staff Officer
Major Huang Sheng-hang (黃聖航)
 The five survivors include:
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New Deputy
Chief of Logistics of the General Staff Headquarters, Major General
Huang Yu-min (黃佑民)
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Reporter for
the Military News Agency, Sergeant Chen Ying-chu (陳映竹)
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Deputy Chief
of the General Staff for Communications-Electronics and Information,
Major General Tsao Chin-ping (曹進平)
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Accounting
Office Director Major General Liu Hsiao-tang (劉孝堂)
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Chief of
Staff Lieutenant Colonel Chou Hsin-i (周欣頤)
Related
links:
2020 ROCAF UH-60M crash
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