Authorities are still searching for the 12 passengers of TransAsia flight that fell over Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan. TransAsia Flight GE235 has 58 passengers and that include its crew. The airplane was reeled between buildings and clipped an overpass with its port-side wing. It crashed upside down into the shallow river that slowly took off from a downtown Taipei airport on Wednesday (February 4). TransAsia Airways confirmed that 31 were proclaimed dead that includes […]
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