MAGONG, Taiwan: Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways ran an apology on the front pages of five major newspapers on Friday, pledging to shoulder the “utmost responsibility” after 48 people died when one of its planes crashed in stormy weather.

It came as airline chairman Vincent Lin was confronted by grieving relatives as he was paying respects to the dead at the crash site in the Penghu islands after flying in Friday morning.

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