TransAsia plane crash falls in river, 9 died

TAIPEI: 9 of the 58 individuals on board a TransAsia plane were killed when it crash landed in a very capital of Taiwan river, according to TV station report on February, 4. Earlier, the govt. had aforesaid a minimum of 2 individuals were killed within the incident, whereas civil astronautics authorities place the quantity of these reclaimed at concerning 16. 31 mainland Chinese tourists were among those on board, Taiwan ' s business enterprise bureau a fore said. Last July, 48 individuals were killed once a 70-seat ATR 72 turboprop plane of TransAsia Airways crashed close to the runway whereas attempting to land on the little island of Penghu, west of Taiwan Island, Following a storm earlier within the day. Taiwanese media denote footage of the plane within the water many dozen meters from the shore within the Keelung watercourse. CNA aforesaid the flight from capital of Taiwan to the far island of Kinmen lost contact with flight controllers at 10. 55 am and therefore the body landed within the Keelung river close to the city ' s downtown Sungshan Airport.