Live: Plane with 53 passengers aboard crashes into river
Updated: 2015-02-04 12:37
(chinadaily.com.cn / Agencies)
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Follow our live updates on the TransAsia plane carrying 53 passengers that landed in a Taipei river on Wednesday.
Basic facts about aircraft ATR-72
Highlights:
** 31 mainland tourists aboard, including 3 children, with no casualties yet reported
** Hotline: 2720-5892, 0592-7227777 (reserved for mainland tourists)
0926-622-922 (reserved for families and relatives of tourists)
** 15 reportedly dead with 30 others missing, altogether 53 passengers and five crew members aboard
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Video: Plane with 53 passengers aboard crashes into river. |
Latest updates:
4:01 pm
15 people killed
The death toll has risen to 15 after a Taiwanese flight with 58 people turned on its side in midair, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a river Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the island's capital of Taipei, according to Taiwan-based media.
The death toll was expected to rise as rescue crews cleared the mostly sunken fuselage in the Keelung River a couple dozen meters (yards) from the shore. Teams of rescuers in rubber rafts clustered around the wreckage.
3:50 pm
Airliner's share slump
TransAsia Airways' share price slumped 6.9 percent after the crash and soon reached the maximum decline limit of 7 percent.
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TransAsia Airways'stock plunged after the crash. [Photo/IC] |
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