(Bloomberg) -- A TransAsia Airways Corp. turboprop plane crashedinto a river near Taipei moments after taking off, killing at least25 of the 58 people on board in the second fatal accident in lessthan a year for the Taiwanese airline.
At least 15 people survived the crash of Flight GE235 and weretaken to hospitals for treatment, according to the CivilAeronautics Administration, with 18 occupants of the plane stillunaccounted for. The aircraft’s cockpit-voice recorder andflight-data recorder have been recovered for analysis. The pilotscalled “Mayday, mayday, engine” distress call 2 minutes aftertakeoff, according to a recording posted on LiveATC.net.
Watch dashcam video of the plane moments before itcrashes into the river below.
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