At least 40 people are reported to have died after a Taiwanese aircraft crashed trying to make an emergency landing on the island of Penghu in the Straits of Taiwan.
Initial reports suggest TransAsia Airways Flight 222 from Kaohsiung crashed just short of the runway of Magong airport on the small Taiwanese island at about 19:00 local time.
The aircraft was reported to have been trying to land for a second time in stormy weather when it crashed. The ATT-72 twin turboprop was scheduled to depart Koahsiung at 16:00 local time but appears to have been delayed by an hour. The flight to Penghu should have taken 35 minutes and it remains unclear why the aircraft crashed almost an hour-and-a-half after it should have landed.
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