Passenger plane crashes in Taiwan : 51 feared dead

A passenger plane of TransAsia Airline crashed while performing an emergency landing at the airport of Penghu archipelago in Taiwan, Chinese newspaper People’s Daily reports.

According to most recent reports, 51 people were killed, seven were injured.

The TransAsia Airways flight was reportedly trying to make an emergency landing on a small island in typhoon conditions.

The plane reportedly crashed into residential buildings on its way down, according to The Straits Times in Singapore.

The flight took off from Kaohsiung Siaogang Airport in Taiwan at about 5 p.m. local time and was flying to Penghu’s Magong Airport, according to the South China Morning Post.

Taiwanese officials told the newspaper that the plane caught fire after it landed “at the end of a runway.” There were 58 people aboard the plane.

Hundreds of rescuers have been dispatched to the scene.

TransAsia Airways is a Taiwanese airline that makes mostly domestic flights.

Agencies/Canadajournal