Dashcam Captures Moment A Taiwanese Plane Barely Avoids Highway & Crashes Into River!
At least 15 people were killed Wednesday after a Taiwanese flight with 58 people on board clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in the island's capital of Taipei.
The death toll in the TransAsia Airways flight was expected to increase as rescue crews cleared the mostly sunken fuselage in the Keelung River a couple yards from the shore. Taiwan's civil aviation authority said 28 people, including those killed in the crash, had been pulled from the fuselage and 30 were unaccounted for.
The French-Italian-built ATR 72 prop aircraft was flying on its side with one wing scraping past Taiwan's busy National Freeway No. 1 just before it plunged into the river, local television images showed. The plane had taken off Taipei's Sungshan Airport en route to the outlying Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands.
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