Beijing.- The Taiwan authorities confirmed today that 16 of the 31 people killed in a plane crash occurred Wednesday in Taipei were tourists from mainland China and three others are injured identical origin.
Until Wednesday morning the fatal accident had claimed 31 lives and caused 15 wounded, while the remaining 12 are still missing.
The journey of TransAsia Airways, the first private company in Taiwan founded in 1951 to provide services for short distances, was conducted in an airplane ATR-72 and headed to Taipei to Kinmen archipelago.
Because this commercial aircraft powered by two turboprop engines have had other accidents in recent years, Taipei Songshan Airport today eight local flights canceled under this type of aircraft and decided to do a complete overhaul ..
According to reports from Taipei corpses captain and two co-pilots were found and the two black boxes of plane Keelung River, where the plane crashed after touching with one wing recovered a taxi that was traveling on a highway located in a elevation.
Meanwhile, relatives of passengers aboard mainland China plane crash today traveled to Taipei from Xiamen City, where he had organized tourist trip to the neighboring island.
