Aviation Accident: Singapore Airlines Flight 006 Crashes

Tragedy on the Tarmac

October 31, 2000

In a harrowing incident that sent shockwaves through the aviation industry, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashed at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan on October 31, 2000. The severed tail section of the Boeing 747-400, bearing the flight number SQ006, lay ominously on Runway 05R.