A TransAsia plane, flying from Taipei to a Chinese island, crashed minutes after take off.

The number of dead has risen to 25 and could continue to increase. Taiwanese officials have begun investigating the airline, which has had previous accidents.

Flight GE235 from Songshan regional airport in Taipei to Kinmen Island off China’s coast crash-landed into Keelung River, according to Bloomberg. The ATR-72-600 turboprop pane was carrying 53 passengers and five crewmembers when it crashed.

A dashcam video, since removed, captured the moment the plane crashed as it clipped one of its wings into a taxi driving on a highway overpass before diving into the river.

Thirty-one passengers aboard the plane were Chinese nationals part of two tour groups. The rest of the passengers and the crew were Taiwanese. Emergency responders began rescue attempts as soon as they arrived at the scene, using divers and rescue boats to try and reach any survivors. Around 25 have died, and 15 have been rescued while 18 remain unaccounted for.

However, the plane’s voice recorder and flight-data recorder have been retrieved.

According to Airline Reporter, the plane was in the sky for around three minutes. The website also obtained an unverified recording in which the pilot of Flight GE235, speaking in Mandarin, is calling mayday before the crash and reporting an engine flame out.

The aircraft was just over a year old and had been inspected on Jan. 26, according to the Taiwanese Civil Aeronautics Administration, The New York Times reports. The pilot and co-pilot were both experienced with 4,914 flight hours and 6,922 flight hours respectively.

ATR, the Toulouse-based company that manufactures the propeller airliners, released a statement concerning the crash, explaining the accident still is under investigation.

“The Aviation Safety Council of Taiwan will lead the investigation and will be the official source of information. According to ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) regulations, ATR will advise the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et Analyses (BEA), safety investigation authority representing the State of the aircraft manufacturer,” the statement continued.

According to Reuters, this crash pressures TransAsia to review its maintenance and safety procedures. Since 1995, the airline has experienced five crashes. The latest one happened seven months ago when an ATR 72-500 crashed trying to land, killing 48 passengers.

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