Taiwan – A plane making a second landing attempt in stormy weather crashed at an airport on a small Taiwanese island late Wednesday, killing 51 people and injuring seven, fire officials said.
Taiwan was battered by Typhoon Matmo early Tuesday morning, and the Central Weather Bureau was advising of heavy rain through the evening, even though the centre of the storm was in mainland China.
The flight was heading from the capital, Taipei, to the island Penghu, halfway between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait. Pictures from the airport showed a handful of firefighters using flashlights to look at wreckage in the darkness.
Penghu is a lightly populated island that averages about two flights a day from Taipei.
Taiwan’s Central News Agency cites the Civil Aviation Administration as saying the flight carried 54 passengers and four flight crew and was operated by a Taiwanese airline, TransAsia Airways.
DJ Jr
July 23, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Too bad……
Denkete
July 23, 2014 at 6:54 pm
Taata nakulaeendafye panshi.
Deacon
July 24, 2014 at 2:10 am
ninshi tb joshua taba sokele?
burret
July 23, 2014 at 7:20 pm
I hope red lips kabimba and bum bandit Mmembe were on that plane.Zambia will be better place without the two dogs.
vuto777
July 23, 2014 at 7:30 pm
@denkete, na panshi tulapuunka!
diamond platinum
July 23, 2014 at 10:38 pm
Not again
cinqo de mayo
July 24, 2014 at 6:33 am
Fly Asian, die asian
MALOZA
July 24, 2014 at 7:49 am
So next story ati Tuberculosis Joshua predicted this one as well. Nxaaah!!!
pj powers
July 24, 2014 at 8:38 am
you will die before these two die.talking as if zambia is your family country,zambia does not belong to your family by wishing others dead.nonsense
burret
July 24, 2014 at 8:52 am
Thanx for those wise words but panyo pa red lips kabimba and bum bandit Mmembe.
Chris Poto
July 24, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Was’nt HH on the plain?he uses asian airlines when taking mutinta to india for her never ending mentrual.
man
July 24, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Another one has gone missing in north Africa.