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Witness the TransAsia Plane Crash in Taiwan

Witness the TransAsia Plane Crash in Taiwan

TOPSHOTS-TAIWAN-PLANE-ACCIDENT — This screen grab taken from a video shows a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane clipping an elevated motorway and hitting a taxi (C) before crashing into the Keelung river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Feb. 4, 2015.TVBS Taiwan—AFP/Getty Images

February 4, 2015 9:24 AM EST

TOPSHOTS-TAIWAN-PLANE-ACCIDENT — This screen grab taken from a video shows a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane clipping an elevated motorway and hitting a taxi (C) before crashing into the Keelung river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Feb. 4, 2015.TVBS Taiwan—AFP/Getty Images

TAIWAN-PLANE-ACCIDENT — Rescue personnel search for passengers from the wreckage of a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into the Keelung river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Feb. 4, 2015. Sam Yeh—AFP/Getty Images

TOPSHOTS-TAIWAN-PLANE-ACCIDENT — An injured passenger (L) is escorted by emergency personnel up the river bank after a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane crash-landed into the Keelung river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Feb. 4, 2015. Sam Yeh—AFP/Getty Images

TAIWAN-PLANE-ACCIDENT — An injured passenger (C) is carried on a stretcher by emergency personnel up the river bank after a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane crash-landed into the Keelung river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Feb. 4, 2015. Sam Yeh—AFP/Getty Images

TransAsia Airways Plane Crashes In Taipei — Rescue teams carrry a window from a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600 turboprop airplane that crashed into the Keelung River shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan airport in Taipei, Taiwan on Feb. 4, 2015.Ashley Pon—Getty Images

Tawian passenger plane crashes into river, at least 23 killed — A policeman takes photos of passengers' luggage recovered from a TransAsia Airways passenger plane which crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan on Feb. 4, 2015.David Chang—EPA

TransAsia Airways Plane Crashes In Taipei — Rescue personnel, military and members of the media line up along the shore as rescue operations continue to free passengers from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane (not pictured) that crash-landed into a river (at L) outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on Feb. 4, 2015.Ashley Pon—Getty Images

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