Air Algerie plane with 116 people on board crashes into a river.

Wow another crash!!!! I seriously think there is a problem with with the aviation industry. Read the full report here:

An Air Algerie has crashed into river Niger in Africa according to Chinese State TV reports. 110 passengers and 6 cabin crew members were on board the flight.

The plane had taken off from Burkina Faso's capital 

Ouagadougou. Air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after its takeoff.

Initial reports say that the plane was flying through an area where there were violent storms. The plane is an MD83 Airbus which was headed to Algiers. Spanish private airline company Swiftair had earlier said in a notice posted on its website that the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 local time and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 local time but never reached its destination.

METAR Weather report:
DFFD 240100Z 23008KT 9999 FEW020 BKN100 26/23 Q1015 NOSIG 01:00 UTC / 01:00 local time:

"Wind 220 degrees at 6 knots; Visibility 10+ km; Thunderstorm; few clouds at 2000 feet

 AGL few CB clouds at 3300 feet AGL; broken clouds at 10000 feet AGL; Temperature 

25°C; Dewpoint: 23°C; Pressure 1014 mb"

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TransAsia Airways crashes in Taiwan

I don't know what is happening nowadays in the aviation industry. There are developing reports that a TransAsia Airways jet has crashed while attempting an emergency landing.

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Wreckage of Flight GE222 

At least 47 people were feared dead after a TransAsia Airways plane crashed Wednesday while trying to make an emergency landing in stormy weather in the Penghu Islands off the coast of Taiwan.

Taiwan had been suffering strong winds and torrential rains Wednesday from Typhoon Matmo.

Taiwan's Transport Minister Yeh Kuang-shih was quoted by the government's Central News Agency as saying another 11 people were injured after the ATR-72 aircraft crashed outside the airport in Xixi village while attempting a second landing.

Yeh said flight carried 58 passengers and crew members. CNA agency, quoting a local fire brigade chief, had initially reported the death toll at 51.

Flight GE222 was flying from Kaohsiung, a major city on the east coast of Taiwan's main island, to Magong, one of two airports on Penghu Island, which is located halfway between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait.

The Taiwan News reports that aircraft took off more than 90 minutes late because of the poor weather and the pilot reportedly asked to wait until 7:06 p.m. before being allowed to land.

The plane slammed into the ground in the village, setting fire to at least two houses. Photos in the local media from the crash site showed a handful of firefighters using flashlights to look at wreckage in the darkness.

Taiwanese media identified the pilot as 60-year-old Lee Yi-liang and his co-pilot as Chiang Kuan-hsing, 39, and said each had flown over 20,000 hours, according toTaiwan News.

Although the center of Typhoon Matmo had already swept through the islands, heavy rain and strong winds from the system continued to batter the area.

A radar image from the moment of the plane crash showed heavy rain over the area, AccuWeather reports.

CNN International meteorologist Brandon Miller reported that the storm brought 10 inches of rain in the area and winds up to 47 mph.

Airports in the adjacent mainland Chinese province of Fujian had canceled flights and trains ahead of Matmo's arrival.

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