• Scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airport via Chiang Kai-Shek Airport in Taiwan.
• On October 31, 2000, 23:17 local time, Singapore Airlines flight 006 took off from the wrong runway.
• The aircraft impacted with the ground equipment on the closed runway. The impact destroyed the aircraft and killed 83 of the 179 occupants.
• SQ006 was the first fatal crash of a Singapore Airlines aircraft.
