A passenger plane clipped a bridge and plunged into a river in Taiwan on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people.
Rescuers scrambled to pull survivors from the submerged wreck of the ATR-72 twin engine turboprop aircraft, which went down shortly after takeoff from the Taiwanese capital.
Fifty eight people were aboard TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 when it veered out of control as it flew to Kinmen, off the coast of the Chinese province of Xiamen.
The toll: 21 confirmed dead, 17 injured, including two on the ground and 22 missing, according to Taiwan's official news agency CNA.
Crews later recovered the black boxes belonging to the aircraft, CNA reported. The flight data recorder and voice data recorder were found in the tail of the plane, Ang Xingzhong, the executive director of Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council told the news agency.
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