TransAsia fallout

'Concerted effort' ongoing to improve aviation safety: TransAsia

TransAsia Airways executives.

Taipei, July 2 (CNA) The head of TransAsia Airways (復興航空) said Thursday that the company has been making "a concerted effort" to enhance its aviation safety, including a six-month safety overhaul to be launched in mid-July, about five months after a deadly crash involving one of its planes.

TransAsia President Fred Wu (吳滬生) said the airline has been asking aviation experts, as well as the manufacturers of the ATR and the Airbus, to carry out safety checks on all its fleet and to train its personnel since Feb. 4, when flight GE235 crashed in Taipei en route to the outlying county of Kinmen.