Dashcam video of plane crash

A Taiwanese flight with 58 people aboard went sideways, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a river Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the island's capital of Taipei, killing at least 12 people, local media and officials said. Rescue crews in rubber rafts clustered around an exposed area of the mostly sunken fuselage, which was on its side in the Keelung River and missing a wing a couple dozen meters (yards) from the shore. They feared many of the passengers and crew members of the TransAsia Airways flight remained trapped inside. The ATR-72-600 prop-jet aircraft was flying on its side, with one wing scraping past Taiwan's busy National Freeway No. 1 just seconds before it plunged into the river, local television images showed. It had taken off from Taipei's downtown Sungshan Airport en route to the outlying Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands. Civil aviation officials said the flight took off at 10:53 a.m. and lost contact with controllers two minutes later. Many passengers were from China, Taiwanese and Chinese state media reported. Kinmen's airport is a common link between Taipei and China's Fujian province.