TransAsia Airways ATR 72 has crash landed in Taipei. A video has surfaced online of the aircraft’s crash.
A Taiwanese passenger plane with 58 people on board crashed on Wednesday in a river in Taipei.
The plane only glanced a bridge, before it fell.
Taiwan’s CNA news agency confirmed that nine people died in the crash. Rescuers are still working to help passengers from the wreckage.
The media in Taiwan had pictures published of the plane online. It lies about 100 meters from the banks of the Keelung river in the water. Videos of the accident also were published on YouTube.
The plane was from Taipei and on way to Kinmen Island. The accident happened near the airport Sunshan.
The aircraft was reportedly a French-made ATR 72.
