Rescue personnel remove an injured passenger from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan’s capital Taipei in New Taipei City on February 4, 2015. (AFP Photo/Sam Yeh)
Taipei, Reuters—A TransAsia Airways plane with 58 passengers and crew on board cartwheeled into a river shortly after taking off from a downtown Taipei airport on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and leaving about a dozen missing, officials said.
As many as 28 people appeared to have survived the crash after the plane lurched between buildings, clipped an overpass with its port-side wing and crashed upside down in …read more
Source: ASHARQ AL-AWSAT