19 Killed In Taiwan Plane Crash

According to officials, TransAsia Airways plane clipped a bridge before crashing into the river.

Officials also report that thirty people are still unaccounted for.

The ATR-72 turbo-prop plane had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was heading to the outlying Kinmen islands, just off the coast of the south-eastern Chinese city of Xiamen.

Flight controllers are reported to have lost contact with the plane at 10:55 local time (02:55 GMT).

Footage of the plane filmed from inside passing cars showed it banking sharply, hitting a taxi and clipping the bridge before crashing into the river.

Many of the people on board are still inside the aircraft but rescuers on boats have cut it open to gain access to people trapped inside.

By Tom Omulo.

Source Aljazeera.

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