After a year of bad news for aviation, with planes disappearing, being shot down and crashing, one might have hoped that 2015 would be brighter for flyers. Unfortunately, February has already begun on a bad note. On Wednesday, at least eight people were killed when a TransAsia Airways plane with 58 people on board crashed into a river near Taipei, in Taiwan.

The flight clipped a bridge shortly after take off and fell into the Keelung river.

Taiwan's Central News Agency  reported that at least eight people were killed. The flight from Taipei Songshan Airport was headed to the Kinmen islands, just off the coast of south-east China.