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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thank you. it did look like a glider and if the path had been clear, he might have made a safe (less fatalities) landing.
You should have seen the look on my kids’ faces when I pulled out my LeRoy set...
That was no crash-landing. That was a crash!
Old aviation definitions: a good landing is one you walk away from; a great landing is when you can take off again. That was a bad landing!
It was miraculous that 15 survived.
Shocked were they?
Stunned. I think it got more attention than a Clovis point would have as ‘ancient’ technologies go.
Nice comparison to the Clovis.
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