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Taiwanese officials defend letting TransAsia plane fly in wake of typhoon after 48 die in crash

Aircraft ploughs into village and bursts into flames on resort island of Penghu after pilot attempts to make an emergency landing

Rescue workers remove a body from the site of the TransAsia Airways plane crash on the Penghu Islands. Photo: EPA

Taiwanese officials on Thursday defended flight clearance given to a plane which crashed while trying to land during stormy weather, killing 48 people.

Flight GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew members on a domestic flight when it crashed on Wednesday at Magong on the Penghu island chain, with 10 surviving the disaster.