A TransAsia Airways plane carrying 58 persons has crashed into Taipei River in Taiwan. About 12 people confirmed dead as the plane clipped a bridge and crashed into the river. Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) broadcast footage of the plane almost submerged in the Keelung river.
Rescue teams are alongside the plane trying to rescue several people still trapped inside. 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, CNA said.
Flight controllers lost contact with the plane at 10:55 local time (02:55 GMT).
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