incidents On 9 October 1983, a Britten-Norman Islander (registered B-12202) of Yung Shing Airlines was damaged beyond repair in a landing incident at Orchid Island Airport. The twelve people on board survived. Another accident at Orchid Island involving a Formosa Airlines aircraft (the company had been renamed by then) occurred on 14 August 1990. A cargo-configured Dornier 228 (registered B-12268) was approaching the airport when it crashed 15 meters short of the runway threshold, killing the two pilots. On 28 February 1993, the six people—two pilots and four passengers—on board a Dornier 228 (registered B-12238) died when the aircraft crashed into the sea during a landing attempt at Orchid Island in heavy rain. Another Formosa Airlines Dornier 228 (registered B-12298) was damaged beyond repair when its undercarriage collided with an airport fence in a landing attempt at Green Island Airport on 14 June 1993. The 20 passengers and two pilots that had been on the scheduled passenger flight from Taitung City survived. In 1995, Formosa Airlines suffered the write-off of two of its Dornier 228s in only three days. On 15 June, a belly landing incident occurred at Taitung Airport at 15:07 local time. The airplane with the registration B-12288 had originated at Green Island. On 18 June, the pilots of the airliner registered B-12208 lost control during taxiing at Green Island Airport, resulting in the Dornier running into a ditch. Each flight had 17 passengers on board, all of which survived. On 5 April 1996, six passengers of Flight 7613 from Taipei lost their lives when the aircraft, a Dornier 228 registered B-12257, crashed into the sea off Matsu Beigan Airport at 16:25 local time. In poor visibility conditions, the pilots had descended too steeply. There were eleven survivors. The worst accident in the history of Formosa Airlines happened on 10 August 1997, again on the Taipei-Matsu route. At 08:33 local time, Flight 7601 (a Dornier 228, registered B-12256) hit treetops and a water tower following an aborted landing attempt in a heavy rainstorm. All persons on board (two pilots and fourteen passengers) died when the airplane crashed 1 kilometer off Matsu Beigan Airport and erupted into fire. Following another air disaster of Flight 7623, killing 13 people on 18 March 1998, Formosa Airlines was grounded until 1 April, as it was determined that the pilots had not complied with the standard operating procedure. The Saab 340 (registered B-12255)