TAIPEI: At least 25 people were killed when a turboprop passenger plane operated by TransAsia Airways clipped an overpass and plunged into a river in Taiwan – the airline’s second crash in just seven months.
Desperate crew shouted “Mayday! Mayday! Engine flameout!” according to a recording thought to be the final message from the cockpit to the control tower played on local television.
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