Plane crashes into river after wing clips highway

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This has happened on February 3rd, 2015. It's a tragic event, but as you watch the videos on youtube I also see racial insults, such as this which is very wrong in a tragic incident such as this

Asians only know how to fly planes kamikaze style. They can't even drive cars, why would you let them fly a plane!?

And many more,

LOL CHINESE CANT DRIVE CARS NOW THEY CANT DRIVE PLANE?

Below is the detail story of the incident.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Rescuers used a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s capital late Wednesday as they searched into the night for 17 people missing in a crash that killed at least 26 others.
Flight 235 with 58 people aboard — most of them travelers from China — banked sharply on its side shortly after takeoff from Taipei, clipped a highway bridge and then careened into the Keelung River.
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A survivor is rescued by emergency personnel.
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Rescuers in rubber rafts pulled 15 people alive from the wreckage during daylight. After dark, they brought in the crane, and the death toll was expected to rise once crews were able to search through submerged portions of the fuselage, which came to rest a few dozen meters (yards) from the shore.
Dramatic video clips apparently taken from cars were posted online and aired by broadcasters, showing the ATR 72 propjet as it pivoted onto its side while zooming toward a traffic bridge over the river. In one of them, the plane rapidly fills the frame as its now-vertical wing scrapes over the road, hitting a vehicle before heading into the river.
Speculation cited in local media said the crew may have turned sharply to follow the line of the river to avoid crashing into a high-rise residential area, but Taiwan’s aviation authority said it had no evidence of that.
Taiwanese broadcasters repeatedly played a recording of the plane’s final contact with the control tower in which the crew called out “Mayday” three times. The recording offered no direct clues as to why the plane was in distress.
It was the airline’s second French-Italian-built ATR 72 to crash in the past year. Wednesday’s flight had taken off at 11:53 a.m. from Taipei’s downtown Sungshan Airport en route to the outlying Taiwanese-controlled Kinmen islands. The crew issued the mayday call shortly after takeoff, Taiwanese civil aviation authorities said.
TransAsia director Peter Chen said contact with the plane was lost four minutes after takeoff. He said weather conditions were suitable for flying and the cause of the accident was unknown.

“Actually this aircraft in the accident was the newest model. It hadn’t been used for even a year,” he told a news conference.
Thirty-one passengers were from China, Taiwan’s tourism bureau said. Kinmen’s airport is a common link between Taipei and China’s Fujian province.
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The pilot had issued a mayday call shortly after takeoff.
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Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration said 26 people were confirmed dead, 15 were rescued with injuries and 17 were still missing. It said two people on the ground were hurt.
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The plane’s wing hit a taxi, and the driver and a passenger were injured.
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Wu Jun-hong, a Taipei Fire Department official who was coordinating the rescue, said the missing people were either still in the fuselage or had perhaps been pulled down the river.
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Soldiers and rescue workers recover wreckage and passengers’ luggage from the Keelung River.
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“At the moment, things don’t look too optimistic,” Wu told reporters at the scene. “Those in the front of the plane are likely to have lost their lives.”
Rescuers could be seen pulling luggage from an open plane door to clear the fuselage. Ten inflatable dinghies also searched for the missing.
As a drizzle fell around nightfall, military crews took portable bridges to the scene, where rescue workers were building docks for easier access to the wreckage. About 300 rescue personnel and members of the media stood along the banks of the narrow river.
Part of the freeway above it was littered with debris and was closed after the crash.
Relatives of the victims had not reached the scene by dusk Wednesday but some were expected to arrive Thursday, including some flying from Beijing.
The plane’s wing hit a taxi on the freeway, and the driver and a passenger were injured, Chen said.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it had sent 165 people and eight boats to the riverside rescue scene, joining fire department rescue crews.
Another ATR 72 operated by the same Taipei-based airline crashed in the outlying Taiwan-controlled islands of Penghu last July 23, killing 48 at the end of a typhoon for reasons that are still under investigation.
ATR, a French-Italian consortium based in Toulouse, France, said it was sending a team to Taiwan to help in the investigation.
The ATR 72-600 that crashed Wednesday is manufacturer’s best plane model, and the pilot had 4,900 hours of flying experience, said Lin Chih-ming of the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor at Flightglobal magazine in Singapore, said the ATR 72-600 is the latest iteration of one of the most popular turboprop planes in the world, particularly favored for regional short-hop flights in Asia.
It has a generally good reputation for safety and reliability and is known among airlines for being cheap and efficient to operate.
While it’s too early to say what caused the crash, engine trouble or weight shifting were unlikely to be causes, Waldron said. Other possible factors include pilot error, weather or freak incidents such as bird strikes.
“It’s too early now to speculate on whether it was an issue with the aircraft or crew,” Waldron said.
The accessibility of the crash site should allow for a swift investigation, and an initial report should be available within about a month, Waldron said.

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The pilot had issued a mayday call shortly after takeoff.

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The plane’s wing hit a taxi, and the driver and a passenger were injured.

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Soldiers and rescue workers recover wreckage and passengers’ luggage from the Keelung River.

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Very tragic accident, but also, how do you feel about the racial slurs people are blatantly posting on youtube, I know youtube community is terrible, but don't you think that's wrong? ​

 

[Ventuis]

My oh my. This world nowadays.

 

[YowYan]

Its Youtube. Don't take youtube comments seriously.

OT: I can only imagine how the passengers and pilots must have felt, nose diving inside a plane.

 

[Zexion~]

The guy didn't even brake lml

 

[~Ethereal~]

You have got to be joking...

 

[HeavenlySolace]

and this, is why I wanna say f it and move into a treehouse.

 

[DoubleKamui]

That yellow vehicle was hit. Talk about perfect timing. :|

Very tragic event.

 

[SSU]

Wow what a terrifying sight. Hope everyone is safe. And forget the youtube comments its the internet, there will be douche bags.

 

[Young Thug]

honestly, I don't know why ppl still think it's wise or mildly entertaining to read Youtube comments

 

[Conspirator.]

Idiots will be idiots, obviously its wrong to make fun of such events but what can you do

This is so true.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

Damn that tripped me out. The passengers seemed way too calm.

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

Damn that tripped me out. The passengers seemed way too calm.

Probably in a state of shock, they seem calm but probably scared as hell.
Though one of the things you need to do is stay calm otherwise you may kill yourself, if the crash didn't kill you.


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