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TransAsia plane crash lands in Taipei river
TransAsia Airways ATR 72 has crash landed in Taipei. A video has surfaced online of the aircraft’s crash
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The ATR-72 turboprop aircraft with 58 onboard was flying from Taipei to the offshore island of Kinmen when it crashed into the Keelung River after apparently ramming into a highway viaduct, Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) said. Taiwan’s United Daily News said about 10 people have been sent to hospital in New Taipei City, which encircles Taipei, and more than 40 are still awaiting rescue. A taxi was also damaged in the crash, the reports said without elaboration. (War News – YouTube)
TransAsia plane crash lands in Taipei river
TransAsia Airways ATR 72 has crash landed in Taipei. A video has surfaced online of the aircraft’s crash
大驚!!! 出大事了~~20150204-10:50 親眼目睹復興航空B22816墜
The ATR-72 turboprop aircraft with 58 onboard was flying from Taipei to the offshore island of Kinmen when it crashed into the Keelung River after apparently ramming into a highway viaduct, Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) said. Taiwan’s United Daily News said about 10 people have been sent to hospital in New Taipei City, which encircles Taipei, and more than 40 are still awaiting rescue. A taxi was also damaged in the crash, the reports said without elaboration. (War News – YouTube)
AT LEAST eight people have died after a TransAsia Airways plane clipped a bridge and crashed into a river near the Taiwanese capital, Taipei.
Fifty-eight people were onboard the domestic flight, and a number of people were reportedly injured.
Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) broadcast footage of the plane almost submerged in the Keelung river.
Rescue teams are alongside the plane trying to rescue about 30 people still trapped inside.
The ATR-72 had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was headed to the outlying Kinmen islands, just off the coast of south-east China, CNA said.
Flight controllers lost contact with the plane at 10:55 local time (02:55 GMT).
Footage of the plane apparently filmed from inside passing cars showed it banking sharply and clipping the bridge before crashing into the river.
CNA also quoted a government spokesman as saying the plane had hit an elevated bridge.
Television images showed rescuers standing on large sections of broken wreckage trying to pull passengers out of the plane with ropes.
Those that were rescued were helped into dinghies and taken to shore.
Out of the 58 people on board 53 are believed to be passengers and five are crew. Thirty-one of the passengers are tourists from mainland China.
The BBC’s Cindy Sui in Taipei says the Chinese tourists could have been on their way home as many people come to Taiwan through Kinmen island.
More than 10 people have been taken to hospital, she adds.
In July last year 48 people died when a TransAsia Airways plane crashed amid stormy weather in Taiwan’s Penghu archipelago. (By Cindy Sui)
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31125052
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