At least 11 people were killed and up to 19 were missing after a Taiwanese TransAsia Airways plane with 58 passengers and crew on board crashed into a river shortly after taking off from a downtown Taipei airport on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Taiwan’s fire department classified 10 of the passengers as showing “no sign of life” and one killed. Twenty-eight people had been rescued, leaving 19 still unaccounted for.
A SAR mission is in progress: television footage showed survivors wearing life jackets wading and swimming clear of wreckage. Others, including a young child, were taken to shore by rescuers.
Taiwanese government authorities said the plane was carrying 58 passengers and crew, including 31 tourists from mainland China.
www.belsat.eu/en, following Reuters
