Posted on 02/03/2015 8:36:06 PM PST by machogirl
A plane belonging to Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways has crash-landed in a river in Taipei. More than 50 people were onboard at the time, and a number of people were reportedly injured. Some reports said there were several people trapped inside the plane in need of rescue. Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) showed a picture of a plane almost submerged in the Keelung river. The ATR-72 had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was headed to Kinmen Airport on the outskirts of Taiwan, just off the coast of south-east China, CNA said. The cause of the latest incident was not immediately clear. But CNA quoted a government spokesman as saying the plane crashed after hitting an elevated bridge. Local channel ETTV showed footage of the plane banking and hitting a road bridge before crashing into the river. Local media reported that several people had been rescued so far and sent to a nearby hospital. In July last year 48 people died when a TransAsia Airways plane crashed amid stormy weather in Taiwan's Penghu archipelago.
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interesting to see random English on foreign TV broadcasts, “Live” and “Coming Up” when they went to break
I’m sorry wardaddy. :(
Thanks for your coverage of this crash.
Strange. Commercials in English. I understand that. To my brain, they sure talk fast.
commercials during a press conference, which was in a box on the side...
welcome. very sad. i had hoped for better news.
I prefer Korean shows, their language is more syllable-based and sounds better to my ear. Plus it is easier to learn a few words here and there.
Well thank you dear
You always remember them as young Forever
I still drop flowers when in my hometown
That event changed my life....made me go for it
Media reporting the pilot’s mayday included a mention of double engine failure - one engine/prop may have been spinning down slower/later than the other.
Shades of Delta 191 and the poor bastard that got a landing gear in his truck cab while driving down Highway 121 outside the airport.
I hope the taxi driver is OK.
But can you imagine the phone call... “Hello, Insurance? Um, my taxi got hit by a plane...”
Prayers for those in and affected by the crash.
Preparing to attach cable from crane to plane.
cable attached to sling, barge moved out of the way, taking tension on sling.
Not to be confused with American 191 where the engine fell off onto the runway.
No, that one was where the then out of control DC-10 hit a trailer park and an unused hangar. Delta 191 was slammed to the ground by a microburst at landing, bouncing it off the freeway near DFW airport; one poor driver on the highway received the DC-10’s landing gear. The aircraft bounced, got airborne again, then crashed into some nearby fuel tanks.
Looks like the “boss”, (probably the supe for the crane company), is directing for more cables or repositioning of cables. Cable added, taking tension
Sorry, 191 was an L-1011. The poor guy on the highway got an L-1011 main gear through his car, with the L-1011 still attached.
Plane is pretty well crunched, lifting it up by the back end and slowly dragging it towards shore. Probably the only option, doesn’t look structurally sound to lift it.
Workhorse all over the world.
carcass of plane being drug to the shore line.
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