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Updated at 16.25
MORE THAN 40 people were killed in a plane crash in Taiwan today, officials said, with local television reporting the flight had smashed into two houses after an aborted landing.
There are conflicting reports about the number of casualties.
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.
Taiwan’s transport minister said that 47 people were trapped in the place and feared dead. He said another 11 people were injured when the plane crashed and caught fire.
Flight GE222 was heading from southern port city of Kaohsiung to the outlying island Penghu, halfway between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait.
The country was battered by Typhoon Matmo early yesterday 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.
Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration Shen Chi told reporters the plane’s journey had been delayed due to bad weather.
The control tower reportedly lost contact with the aircraft soon after they requested a second attempt to land.
- Additional reporting by the AP
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I’ve also heard that Cadbury’s have hacked off one-fifth of Freddo the Frog .
And our giving redundancies to their staff as they are moving operations to a cheaper country
everybody is leaving. I am hoping to go myself and I am in the higher tax bracket. I stayed because i felt it served my country to pay tax and support others. I am now over it. It doesn’t serve me anymore. I am in debt and I would be better off elsewhere.
and when I say debt, its minimum and I can pay it back. Not compared to the fraudsters that gambled. They have put me and many others in debt
Dear Mr. Journalist. It’s “how quickly”, not “how quick”. When describing a verb, you use an adverb, not an adjective. I know that the internet likes to bugger with adverbs, particularly if it pertains to doing anything “direct”, but you, as indebted as you are to the English language for your living should be able to show that language just a modicum of respect.
I wish wikileaks would stop invading other people’s privacy. It worries me to think what would happen if they started targeting business and political figures over here, not that there’s anything to hide of course.
Fake account
Fake account but some of the view expressed aren’t far off the YFG mentality
I suppose Mr and Ms Majority really thought you looked like a silent when you were born?
Silent majority who are you?
Looks like Kevin and yfg are best buddies .. Interesting
Suzie are you and davedunne the same person? You both seem a bit obsessed with me.
Is that the best you could come up with ?
I differ in policy to yfg on most issue. It’s a careerists clubs for most. Boosts the cv for various employers. I dislike yfg and would never vote FG after what they’ve done.
have your say