At least 25 people have been killed and 17 are missing after a passenger jet crashed into a river in Taiwan minutes after takeoff.
There were 58 people on board the TransAsia ATR 72-600 plane when it hit a road bridge in the capital Taipei. Fifteen survived.
Video taken by a passing driver's dashcam shows the aircraft's wing clipping a taxi after managing to avoid nearby buildings.
It then disappears from view, coming down on its side in the Keelung River about 25 metres (30 yards) from the bank.
A crane has now lifted the wreckage onto the shore enabling rescuers to search the fuselage, where more bodies are expected to be found.
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Gallery: Pictures Show Plane's Bridge Collision
The images - which have not been independently verified - appear to show the moment the plane clipped the bridge in Taiwan's capital Taipei Credit: @Missxoxo168
Wu Jun-hong, a Taipei fire department official coordinating the rescue operation, said earlier those missing were either in the fuselage or had been swept down river.
"Things don't look too optimistic," Mr Wu told reporters at the scene. "Those in the front of the plane are likely to have lost their lives."
According to reports, the plane took off from Taipei's Sungshan airport at 10.53am local time and lost contact with air traffic control two minutes later.
It was heading for the Kinmen islands, and as many as 31 passengers were Chinese, three of them children. Kinmen's airport is a common link between Taipei and China's Fujian province.
The other 22 passengers, including one child, and five crew were from Taiwan.
Television footage showed survivors in life jackets wading and swimming clear of the wreckage, which was surrounded by rubber boats.
Others, including a young child, were taken to safety by rescuers, who could also be seen pulling carry-on luggage from an open door.
The Ministry of National Defence said it had sent 165 people and eight boats to the rescue scene, joining fire department crews.
No reasons have been given for the crash, although a 'flameout' - caused by a fuel supply problem or faulty combustion - is thought to be a strong possibility.
According to an air traffic control recording at liveatc.net, the last communication from one of the aircraft's pilots was "Mayday Mayday engine flameout".
The plane, which went into service last year, was one of eight French-built ATR 72-600s ordered by TransAsia in 2012.
The 72-seater jets are mainly used to fly people from Taipei to smaller cities and islands.
TransAsia director Peter Chen said contact was lost four minutes after takeoff, but weather conditions were suitable for flying.
"Actually this aircraft in the accident was the newest model. It hadn't been used for even a year," he told a news conference.
Mr Chen confirmed the driver of the taxi hit on the bridge and his passenger were both injured.
The crash is the latest in a string of mishaps involving Asian carriers in the past 12 months.
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Gallery: Rescue Operation Following Plane Crash
Workers hoist the wreckage of a TransAsia passenger jet that crashed into a river shortly after takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan
At least 19 people were killed and many trapped in the wreckage
Rescue workers freed survivors and recovered bodies at the crash site
In December an AirAsia jet bound for Singapore crashed soon after taking off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya, killing all 162 people on board.
Last July a TransAsia ATR-72 crashed while attempting to land on the island of Penghu off Taiwan, killing 48 people and injuring 10.
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