Plane TransAsia crashes in Taiwan River

Plane TransAsia crashes in Taiwan River
A plane carrying Chinese tourists mostly crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 31 people.
Spectacular video footage showing emerged the TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as he went down shortly after takeoff from a Taipei airport.

The plane, carrying 58 people, broke as he plunged into the Keelung River in Taipei. The body was then recovered by a crane.
There were 15 survivors from the wreckage, but 12 people are still missing.
John Sudworth reports: "This is not a rescue mission, but a revival process"
The television showed clear waders passenger from the submerged wreckage and a baby came out alive by rescuers.Emergency teams cut open the plane while he was in the water, but could not reach the stranded passengers in the front section of the fuselage. At nightfall, a crane was used to lift the wreckage on shore. It was expected that the death toll to rise as rescue teams searched the fuselage and the river for the 12 missing passengers.
"At the instant, things do not seem too hopeful," said Wu Jun-hong, a fire department official Taipei coordinate journalists rescue effort.
The ATR-72 turboprop aircraft had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and headed for the islands of Kinmen, just off the coast of the city of southeast China's Xiamen.
This is the second TransAsia ATR-72 crash in seven months, following a July last crash that killed 48 people and wounded 15.
The final communication drivers to air traffic control was "Mayday flame, mayday, engine out of action" according to a recording played on the local media. The recording was not immediately verified by aviation officials.

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