Tawain Plane Crash: Rescue and Recovery After TransAsia Plane Accident

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The video shows a plane that was catching a taxi and part of a highway before going to the Taiwan River in Taipei. CNN’s David McKenzie has the last one. — A passenger plane cut off a bridge and plunged into the Taiwan River on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people, the official CNA Island news agency reported. Rescuers turned around to pull the BTR’s surviving ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop aircraft shortly after taking off from the Taiwanese capital Taipei. Forty-eight people were on board the TransAsia Airways GE235 flight to Kinmen, off the coast of China’s Xiamen province. Toll: 31 dead, 15 injured and 12 missing, officials said. The search and rescue efforts continue. Two other people traveling in a car on the bridge cut off the wings of the plane were also injured. The pilot of the plane and the two co-pilots were among those confirmed dead, authorities said. The crew then recovered the plane’s “black boxes,” according to the official CNA island agency. A flight data recorder and a voice data recorder were found in the tail of the plane, Ang Xingzhong, executive director of the Taiwan Aviation Safety Council, told the news agency. Read the rest of this article here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/04/asia/taiwan-plane-crash-transasia/index.html .

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