TransAsia GE235 crashed in Taipei river

When I looked at Twitter I saw footage of plane hitting road and crashing into river. At first I thought that it is some CGI because that plane looks so unreal. But it is real.

TransAsia Airways is an airline based in Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan. Though the company started its operations focusing mainly on the domestic market, it now approaches 30 scheduled international routes and focuses mainly on Southeast and Northeast Asia and cross-strait flights.

Flight 235 was travelling from Taipei Songshan Airport with 53 passengers and five crew members on board. It departed Taipei Songshan Airport at 10:53 a.m. Taiwan time (02:53 UTC). A recording of air traffic control communications reportedly showed the pilots issuing a Mayday call (declaring an emergency) and reporting an engine flameout. At 10:55, controllers lost contact with the aircraft and it crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei's Neihu District.

At least two dashcam videos from cars traveling along an elevated highway next to the river recorded the crash. Moving from left to right across the frame, the aircraft, flying level, first cleared an apartment building. Then, the aircraft banked sharply at nearly a 90 degree bank angle, port wing down. As the fuselage of the aircraft cleared the elevated highway, the port wingtip smashed into a taxi, and the outboard section of the wing was torn off as it hit the concrete guardrail of the elevated highway. Two people in the taxi were injured. At least 25 people on the flight were killed

FlightRadar24 on his Twitter account published trajectory of flight. It looks like they were trying to emergency landing on river, they turned left, start descending and flew along the river. Pilots also reported engine flameout but on videos aren't any clues about fire or something similiar.

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