TAIPEI, Taiwan (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) â The death toll has topped 20 and is expected to rise in the crash of a Taiwanese flight shortly after takeoff from Taiwan's capital, Taipei, with 58 people aboard.
Video shows the TransAsia Airways plane turning on its side in midair, clipping an elevated roadway and careening into a shallow river. Some 30 people are still missing.
Rescue crews in rubber rafts are clearing the mostly sunken fuselage in the Keelung River a couple dozen yards from the shore.
A broadcast report says the plane's wing also hit a taxi, injuring the driver.
It's the airline's second French-Italian-built ATR 72 prop-jet to crash in the past year. Another ATR 72 operated by the same airline crashed last July 23, killing 48 at the end of a typhoon. That crash is also under investigation.
TransAsia plans a news conference later today.
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