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Singapore Airlines Flight 006 was a scheduled Singapore Airlines passenger flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airport via Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now known as Taoyuan International Airport) near Taipei, Taiwan. On 31 October 2000, at 23:18 Taipei local time (15:18 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 people aboard. Ninety-eight occupants initially survived the accident, but two passengers died later from injuries in hospital.[1] It was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 747-400; it is also the only Singapore Airlines accident to result in fatalities.[1]

Accident

Date: 31 October 2000

Cause: Crashed into construction equipment during takeoff on a closed runway

Site: Runway 05R, Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan
25°4'35?N 121°13'26?E

Aircraft

Aircraft type: Boeing 747-412

Operator: Singapore Airlines

IATA flight No: SQ006

ICAO flight No: SIA006

Call sign: SINGAPORE 6

Registration: 9V-SPK

Flight origin: Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore

Stopover: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Destination: Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupants: 179

Passengers: 159

Crew: 20

Fatalities: 83

Injuries: 71

Survivors: 96