• The death toll in the TransAsia Airways flight is expected to rise as rescue crews cleared the mostly sunken fuselage in the Keelung River a metres from the shore. Wally Santana / AP Photo
    The death toll in the TransAsia Airways flight is expected to rise as rescue crews cleared the mostly sunken fuselage in the Keelung River a metres from the shore. Wally Santana / AP Photo
  • Emergency personnel work on top of the wreckage. AP Photo
    Emergency personnel work on top of the wreckage. AP Photo
  • Teams of rescuers in rubber rafts clustered around the wreckage. Sam Yeh / AFP Photo
    Teams of rescuers in rubber rafts clustered around the wreckage. Sam Yeh / AFP Photo
  • The ATR 72 prop-jet aircraft was flying on its side, with one wing scraping past Taiwan’s National Freeway No. 1 just seconds before it plunged into the river. Sam Yeh / AFP Photo
    The ATR 72 prop-jet aircraft was flying on its side, with one wing scraping past Taiwan’s National Freeway No. 1 just seconds before it plunged into the river. Sam Yeh / AFP Photo
  • It was TransAsia’s second French-Italian-built ATR 72 to crash in the past year. Sam Yeh / AFP Photo
    It was TransAsia’s second French-Italian-built ATR 72 to crash in the past year. Sam Yeh / AFP Photo
  • Soldiers recover plane wreckage and passengers’ luggage. David Chang / EPA
    Soldiers recover plane wreckage and passengers’ luggage. David Chang / EPA
  • A rescue crew carries a window from a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600. Ashley Pon / Getty Images
    A rescue crew carries a window from a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600. Ashley Pon / Getty Images
  • CNA said the flight from Taipei to the outlying island of Kinmen lost contact with flight controllers at 10:55am (6.55am UAE) and the fuselage landed in the Keelung River near the city’s downtown Sungshan airport. Ashley Pon / Getty Images
    CNA said the flight from Taipei to the outlying island of Kinmen lost contact with flight controllers at 10:55am (6.55am UAE) and the fuselage landed in the Keelung River near the city’s downtown Sungshan airport. Ashley Pon / Getty Images
  • Rescuers clustered around the plane in rubber boats more than two hours after the crash, and could be seen pulling carry-on luggage from an open plane door. Wally Santana / AP Photo
    Rescuers clustered around the plane in rubber boats more than two hours after the crash, and could be seen pulling carry-on luggage from an open plane door. Wally Santana / AP Photo

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Taiwan TransAsia Flight GE235 crash — in pictures

Mark Asquith

February 04, 2015

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A Taiwanese flight with 58 people turned on its side in mid-air, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a river Wednesday shortly after take-off from the island’s capital of Taipei, killing at least 15 people, local media and officials said.

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