horrified motorists witness taiwan airliner flip into river. at least 23 killed

8/9/2019 Horrified Motorists Witness Taiwan Airliner Flip Into River. at Least 23 Killed.

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Horrifed motorists witness Taiwanairliner ip into river. At least 23 killed.At least 19 people were killed and more than two dozen injured Fe. ! outside Taipei.

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A Taiwanese TransAsia turboprop plane carrying 58 passengers and crew slammed

into a bridge on Wednesday morning, careening on its wing almost in a cartwheel

over the roadway and crashing into a shallow river in Taipei a horrifying scene

captured by a motorists video camera. The accident illed at least !" people and

in#ured more than a do$en others,according to local news reports. %any passengers

are still missing.

&hortly after taeoff, one of the planes pilots sent a frantic message' (%ayday,
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%ayday, engine flameout.) A flameout is engine failure when the fuel supply to

the engine is interrupted or there is faulty combustion,*eutersreported.

The TransAsia Airways flight, carrying 5" passengers and five crew members, lost

contact with flight controllers shortly after it departed at about +'5" a.m. localtime and crashed into Taipeis -eelung *iver #ustminutes later, according to a

statementfrom Taiwanese entral /isaster *esponse entre. The te0t has been

translated by the 1uardian Australia.

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2ootage from an in3car camera provided by a witness showed that a plane turned sideways and then

gra$ed an elevated e0pressway before crashing in Taipei, Taiwan. 4A6

/ramaticvideo footagecaptured by a motorist has emerged on social media,

showing flight 17!"5, a turboprop AT* !39 aircraft, sidding on its wing across

the roadway before plummeting into the river, not far from the citys downtown

&ongshan Airport. :n its way down, the plane also hit a ta0i, in#uring the driver,

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for survivors. assengerswearing life #acetsswam to shore or were pulled from the

wrecageusing ropes. Twenty people are still missing and +5 were rescued with

in#uries, according to the Associated ress.

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A Taiwan plane with 58 people on board crashed into a river shortly after taeoff from a Taipei

airport, illing at least nine people. 4*euters6

The ta0i driver who was hit and survived has been called the (luciest man alive.)

>e reportedly told a doctor at the hospital that he remembers feeling (very scared.)

= fainted the moment it hit us,) the driver said, according to a doctor who treated

him at Taipeis ity >ospital. TheApple /aily newspaperreportedly had the story.
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An in#ured passenger is helped onto land by emergency personnel along the river ban. 4&am

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The ta0i driver is reported to be in stable condition, but some were not so fortunate.

%any still missing are thought to be trapped inside a submerged section at the front

of the plane, according to theAustralian ong


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Worers lifted the fuselage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane from the shallow river in Taipei

where it crashed. At least !" people were illed and many more are still missing. 4A6

A TransAsia spoeman declined to comment to the A on the possible cause of the

crash, but TransAsia chief e0ecutive hen Einde offered his (deep apology to the

victims and our crew) at a news conference.

Theblac bo0es flight recordings that will help authorities determine what

e0actly went wrong have been pulled from the water, according to local news

reports.

Wednesdays accident is somewhat reminiscent of the+F8! plane crashin

Washington, /.., where a severe snowstorm sent Air 2lorida 2light F careening

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summer, a flight from -aohsiung, Taiwan, went down while attempting to land on

enghu, an island off the coast of Taiwan, illing C8 people and in#uring + others.

That aircraft was also a 2rench3built AT* ! plane. The planes manufacturer said

it would send a team to Taiwan to investigate what went wrong, the A reported.

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