A relative of a passenger on the Taiwan domestic TransAsia Airways flight GE222 that crashed on the Taiwan island of Penghu, reacts at the flight's departure airport in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, late on July 23, 2014.
Taipei:
Ten people survived the passenger plane crash in Taiwan on Wednesday with injuries, but as many as 48 people have been confirmed dead, the airline said in a statement today.
TransAsia Airways' Flight GE 222, with 58 people on board, smashed into residential buildings after a failed emergency landing in the outlying island county of Penghu on Wednesday evening, Xinhua reported.
Meanwhile, family members of the people on board are rushing to Penghu's Magong airport, the statement said.
Each family member will get condolence payment worth of 200,000 new Taiwan dollars ($6,673) from TransAsia, and families of the deceased will each get a funeral subsidy from the airline worth 800,000 new Taiwan dollars, the statement added.
According to the statement, the flight carried 54 passengers, including two French nationals, and four crew members.
One of the aircraft's black boxes was found on Wednesday night, Taiwan's transportation authority said.
The island's aviation safety council said that experts would recover the flight data recorded in the black box to determine the cause of the accident.
An earlier report on Wednesday had put the toll at 47, citing the Taiwan's transportation authority.
The plane was going from Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan to Penghu Islands in the west.
Flight GE 222 was scheduled to take off at 4 pm, but left Kaohsiung at 5:43 pm due to bad weather.
The flight sought to circle above before trying to land at Magong Airport but lost contact with the tower, said Jean Shen, director general of Taiwan's civil aeronautics administration, in a press conference.
The accident took place in the backdrop of Typhoon Matmo arriving on the island with heavy rain and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools.
As the plane was preparing to land at Magong airport during heavy rain, it was forced to pull up because of poor visibility, Focus Taiwan news channel reported, citing the Penghu fire department.
On its second attempt at landing, the aircraft crashed in the village of Xixi in Penghu's Huxi Township, the fire department said.
TransAsia Airways' Flight GE 222, with 58 people on board, smashed into residential buildings after a failed emergency landing in the outlying island county of Penghu on Wednesday evening, Xinhua reported.
Meanwhile, family members of the people on board are rushing to Penghu's Magong airport, the statement said.
Each family member will get condolence payment worth of 200,000 new Taiwan dollars ($6,673) from TransAsia, and families of the deceased will each get a funeral subsidy from the airline worth 800,000 new Taiwan dollars, the statement added.
According to the statement, the flight carried 54 passengers, including two French nationals, and four crew members.
One of the aircraft's black boxes was found on Wednesday night, Taiwan's transportation authority said.
The island's aviation safety council said that experts would recover the flight data recorded in the black box to determine the cause of the accident.
An earlier report on Wednesday had put the toll at 47, citing the Taiwan's transportation authority.
The plane was going from Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan to Penghu Islands in the west.
Flight GE 222 was scheduled to take off at 4 pm, but left Kaohsiung at 5:43 pm due to bad weather.
The flight sought to circle above before trying to land at Magong Airport but lost contact with the tower, said Jean Shen, director general of Taiwan's civil aeronautics administration, in a press conference.
The accident took place in the backdrop of Typhoon Matmo arriving on the island with heavy rain and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools.
As the plane was preparing to land at Magong airport during heavy rain, it was forced to pull up because of poor visibility, Focus Taiwan news channel reported, citing the Penghu fire department.
On its second attempt at landing, the aircraft crashed in the village of Xixi in Penghu's Huxi Township, the fire department said.
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