Photos: Plane crashes into Taiwan river

Divers continue to search for the missing at the site of a TransAsia Airways crash in Taipei, Taiwan. (Wally Santana / Associated Press)

Feb. 4, 2015 7:19 AM PT

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A TransAsia Airways flight with 58 people aboard clipped a bridge and crashed into a river in Taipei, Taiwan.

Divers carry a recovered body at the site of the TransAsia crash in Taipei. (Wally Santana / Associated Press)

Relatives from mainland China react as they watch divers recover bodies at the site of the TransAsia crash in Taipei. (Wally Santana / Associated Press)

Rescuers pray near the bodies of victims from the TransAsia crash. (Sam Yeh / AFP/Getty Images)

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. (SAM YEH / AFP/Getty Images)

Rescue personnel lift a shirtless passenger from the waters around the wreckage of a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into the Keelung River outside Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. (SAM YEH / AFP/Getty Images)

An injured passenger, center, is helped onto land by emergency personnel along the riverbank after a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane crash-landed into the Keelung River outside Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. (SAM YEH / AFP/Getty Images)