On thisday 31 October 2000 Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff in Taipei killing 83 people. Singapore Airlines Flight 006 was a scheduled passenger flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airportvia Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport) in Taipei, Taiwan. On 31 October 2000, at 23:17 Taipei local time
(15:17 UTC), the Boeing 747-412 operating the flight attempted to take off from the wrong runway at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport during a typhoon. The aircraft crashed into construction equipment on the runway, killing 83 of the 179 occupants aboard.
As of 2014, the accident is the third-deadliest on Taiwanese soil, behind Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103and China Airlines Flight 676. It is also the only crash of a 747-400 to result in passenger fatalities.
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