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On April 26 , 1994 , A China Airlines aircraft was due to land in Nagoya , Japan . The Airbus A300 was completing a routine flight and approach, however just before landing, the First Officer pressed the Take Off/Go-Around button (also known as a TOGA) which raises the throttle position to the same as take offs and go-arounds. The pilots attempted to correct the situation by manually reducing the throttles and pushing the Yoke downwards. The autopilot then acted against these inputs (as it is programmed to do when the TOGA button is activated), causing the plane to have a very nose-high attitude. This nose-high attitude, combined with decreasing airspeed due to insufficient thrust, resulted in an aerodynamic Stall of the aircraft. With insufficient altitude to recover from this condition, the subsequent crash killed 264 of the 271 people aboard. The crash which destroyed the plane (delivered less than 3 years earlier in 1991 ) was attributed to crew error for their failure to correct the controls as well as the airspeed. EXTERNAL LINKS
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