Plane Plunges Into River

Taiwan rescuers scoured a river for 12 people still missing from a TransAsia plane crash Thursday as the pilot was hailed as a hero for apparently battling to avoid hitting built-up areas shortly after issuing a "mayday" call.

New footage has emerged of a TransAsia Airways plane clipping a road bridge and plunging into a river in Taiwan today, killing at least 16 people.

Lao Airlines on Saturday said it had identified almost half of the 30 bodies so far recovered after a plane carrying dozens of people, many of them foreign travellers, plunged into the Mekong River.

Nepal said Saturday an error by a "panic-stricken" pilot likely caused the crash of an Everest-bound plane that killed all 19 on board. The twin-propeller Sita Air plane had just taken off on Friday from Kathmandu and was headed to the town of Lukla, gateway to Mount Everest, when it plunged into the banks of a river near the city's airport around ...

Taiwan rescuers scoured a river for 12 people still missing from a TransAsia plane crash Thursday as the pilot was hailed as a hero for apparently battling to avoid hitting built-up areas shortly after issuing a "mayday" call.

New footage has emerged of a TransAsia Airways plane clipping a road bridge and plunging into a river in Taiwan today, killing at least 16 people.

Lao Airlines on Saturday said it had identified almost half of the 30 bodies so far recovered after a plane carrying dozens of people, many of them foreign travellers, plunged into the Mekong River.

Nepal said Saturday an error by a "panic-stricken" pilot likely caused the crash of an Everest-bound plane that killed all 19 on board. The twin-propeller Sita Air plane had just taken off on Friday from Kathmandu and was headed to the town of Lukla, gateway to Mount Everest, when it plunged into the banks of a river near the city's airport around ...