Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane plunges into river

TAIPEI, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — A plane of the Taiwan TransAsia Airways came down into a Taipei river Wednesday, with more than 50 people on board, confirmed the civil aviation authorities of Taiwan.

Contact with the ATR-72 Flight, scheduled from Taipei to Kinmen, lost at about 11 a.m. Then the plane was found in the river by the Nanhu Bridge, reports Xinhua.

Ten people were injured, Reuters news agency reported. More than 50 people were onboard.

Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) showed a picture of a plane almost submerged in the Keelung river.

In July last year 48 people died when a TransAsia Airways plane crashed amid stormy weather in Taiwan’s Penghu archipelago.

The cause of the latest incident was not immediately clear.