8 dead after Taiwanese plane with 58
passengers crashes in Taipei river
Taipei: 8 people have reportedly died after a Taiwanese plane carrying 58 passengers crashed in a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei .
The ill-fated plane clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and careened into a river.
Parts of the wrecked fuselage of the turboprop ATR 72 jutted out of the shallow Keelung River just a couple dozen meters (yards) from the shore near the city's downtown Sungshan airport.
Rescuers clustered around the plane in rubber boats.
CNA said the flight from Taipei to the outlying island of Kinmen lost contact with flight controllers at 10:55 a.m. and the fuselage landed in the Keelung River near the city's downtown Sungshan airport.
It was the second of TransAsia's French-made ATR 72 to crash in the past year. Last July, a flight crashed while attempting to land on the island of Penghu off Taiwan's coast, killing 48 people and injuring another 10. Stormy weather and low visibility were suspected as factors in that crash.
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