Dramatic dashcam footage in Taiwan shows a TransAsia Airways plane scraping past a major highway moments before it careened into a shallow river, killing at least 23 people, with 20 others missing and 15 hospitalized. The plane, which was carrying 58 people, clipped a bridge shortly after Wednesday’s takeoff from Taipei’s downtown Sungshan Airport, state […]
A passenger plane with 58 on board crashed into a river outside Taiwan’s capital Taipei on Wednesday. So far, 10 people have been rescued and dozens are believed trapped inside, said television reports. The TransAsia jetliner crashed into river after hitting a bridge soon after take off in Taiwan. A TransAsia Airways plane crash landed […]
Hours before Secretary of Defense Robert Gates landed in China, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) staged a test flight of its new stealth fighter, possibly termed the J-20. In some quarters, it is being argued that this flight was deliberately scheduled to upstage the American visit. In the mystery that is Chinese […]
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China on Sunday stepped up censure of planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, as Chinese Internet users vented anger with calls to boycott top U.S. exporter Boeing and other firms involved in the sales. Although the Obama administration defended the package worth about $6.4 billion as necessary to boost regional security, the […]
