The negligence of the TransAsia Flight 222's crew stemmed from the airline's weak safety management process and careless training sessions, Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council (ASC) learned. 

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ASC sent a team of investigators to observe the TransAsia Airways' simulator training sessions and saw many errors that were not corrected by the instructors. 

"The TransAsia Airways observation flights conducted by the investigation team and the interviews with members of the airline's flight operations division show prevalent tolerance for non-compliance with procedures within the airline's ATR fleet," the ASC reported. 

The airline also failed to address the issues identified by the ASC during its previous investigations. ASC's proposed corrective safety actions were not implemented. 

The airline's self-audits were also noted as only spot checks and not system audits or system evaluations, endangering the passengers' safety. 

"The self-audits failed to assess and address those safety deficiencies, including standard operating procedures, non-compliance behaviors, lack of standardization in pilot check and training activities, and high crew flying activities on the ATR fleet," the council said.

There is also no reliable safety management system (SMS) implementation plan that could have saved many crashed flights. The ASC said that because of ineffective processes, establishing resilient safety management capabilities and functions were very difficult. 

Similarly, the TransAsia Airways Flight 222 that crashed in July 2014 could have been avoided. Some of the contributing factors ASC listed were the communication of weather information to the flight crew, coordination issues at civil/military joint-use airport, and the airline's regulatory oversight by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. 

ASC urged the airline to conduct a thorough review of its safety management system, training programs, compliance to SOPs, and deficits in human resources. 

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