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Dashcam video shows Taiwan plane crash

A TransAsia Airways flight crashed into a Taipei river shortly after takeoff Wednesday with 58 passengers on board.
Rescue personnel work to free passengers from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City on February 4, 2015.

(WUSA9) -- A TransAsia Airways flight crashed into a Taipei river shortly after takeoff Wednesday with 58 passengers on board.

Dashcam footage from cars on a bridge beside the river captured the plane going down. TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 was flying on its side when one wing scraped Taiwan's National Freeway No. 1 and plunged into the river.

At least 26 people died and 15 survived when the plane clipped its wing on a bridge and crashed. Seventeen people remained missing and were feared dead.

Teams of rescuers in rubber rafts responded to the crash area in the Keelung River.

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