ANOTHER TRAGEDY Rescue personnel in a rubber dinghy lift a passenger (bottom C) from the waters around the wreckage of the TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane. AFP PHOT
ANOTHER TRAGEDY Rescue personnel in a rubber dinghy lift a passenger (bottom C) from the waters around the wreckage of the TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane. AFP PHOT

TAIPEI: At least 22 people were killed Wednesday when a turboprop passenger plane operated by TransAsia Airways clipped a road bridge and plunged into a river in Taiwan, in the airline’s second crash in just seven months.

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