Update | Survivor of Taiwan air crash ‘pulled herself from wreckage and ran to call her father’

One of the survivors of the Taiwan plane crash clambered from the wreckage and ran to a nearby house to call her father for help, reports said.

Hung Yu-ting was pinned beneath seats after the TransAsia Airways plane came down on the island of Penghu, suffering burns to her back and legs.

But she managed to free herself and ran for help, her father told Taiwan’s Central News Agency.

“She told me ‘the plane crashed’ and sounded weak over the phone,” he said, adding that Hung, a Penghu resident, had flown to Kaoshiung on Tuesday for a conference, but had returned home on Wednesday after it was cancelled due to Typhoon Matmo.

Hung’s father told how he drove to the scene of the crash, where he said he helped save another man from the wreckage.

He added that some villagers had mistaken the crash of the plane during a storm as crashes of thunder.