On the morning of Feb. 4, a TransAsia aircraft with 58 passengers crashed two minutes after take-off from a Taiwan airport. ?An insufficient propelling force is believed to be the cause, forcing the plane to plunge into the Keelung River, but not before it clipped a raised highway in New Tapei City, one wing smacking a taxicab in the process.
A vehicle closely behind the taxi caught the incident on its dashboard camera. See the video below:
Journalist Steve Herman, who covers Asian news for Voice of America, tweeted a?photo of the taxicab struck by the plane’s wing. The driver of the vehicle remains hospitalized with head injury.
TransAsia flight GE 235 was headed to the Kinmen islands. At last report, 26 of the 58 passengers were killed in the crash; 15 were rescued and are currently hospitalized, while another 17 remain missing. Some eyewitnesses of the crash say they saw passengers being flung from the plane as it struck the river.
Rescuers recovered the black box of the new ATR 72-600 plane.