A Taiwanese plane crashed into a shallow river on Wednesday, the latest accident in a tragic 12 months for Asian air travel.
An ATR 72-600 plane operated by TransAsia Airways, a private Taiwanese airline, turned on its side in midair, clipped a bridge, hit a taxi and careened into a river Wednesday with 58 people on board.
Popular low-cost airline AirAsia lost its first plane on Dec. 28 when Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board on its way from Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya to Singapore.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
