臺灣客機墜毀 16名大陸游客遇難
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) —Rescuers used a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan's capital late Wednesday as they searched into the night for 17 people missing in a crash that killed at least 26 others.
臺北市週三晚，救援隊用吊車將失事的復興飛機從基隆河淺灘擡出水面，搜索工作持續到晚間，目前共有17名乘客失蹤，26人死亡。
小編注：最新數據已發佈32人死亡。遇難的有16位大陸乘客。
Flight 235 with 58 people aboard —most of them travelers from China —banked sharply on its side shortly after takeoff from Taipei, clipped a highway bridge and then careened into the Keelung River.
失事的DE235航班班機上有乘客58名，其中大部分來自大陸旅遊團。當時飛機從臺北機場起飛後不久就開始墜落，機身傾斜擦過高速大橋，墜落在基隆河裏。
Rescuers in rubber rafts pulled 15 people alive from the wreckage during daylight. After dark, they brought in the crane, and the death toll was expected to rise once crews were able to search through submerged portions of the fuselage, which came to rest a few dozen meters (yards) from the shore.
白天救援隊已從失事飛機中解救出15人，天黑後用起重機拖出離岸幾十米的飛機殘骸。一旦找到飛機埋入水下部分的乘客，遇害名單可能就要刷新了，情況不容樂觀。
Dramatic video clips apparently taken from cars were posted online and aired by broadcasters, showing the ATR 72 propjet as it pivoted onto its side while zooming toward a traffic bridge over the river. In one of them, the plane rapidly fills the frame as its now-vertical wing scrapes over the road, hitting a vehicle before heading into the river.
汽車黑匣子錄下的飛機失事瞬間視頻已迅速傳遍網絡和新聞。從視頻中可以看出ATR72班機在衝向大橋時瞬間傾斜至垂直，在擦過大橋時撞到一輛汽車，並撞掉欄杆衝入河裏。
Speculation cited in local media said the crew may have turned sharply to follow the line of the river to avoid crashing into a high-rise residential area, but Taiwan's aviation authority said it had no evidence of that.
當地媒體猜測機組人員可能是了防止飛機墜毀在人口密集區域，而選擇順着河流線急轉。臺灣航空當局表示目前還沒有任何證據指向這個猜測。
Taiwanese broadcasters repeatedly played a recording of the plane's final contact with the control tower in which the crew called out "Mayday" three times. The recording offered no direct clues as to why the plane was in distress.
臺灣新聞媒體反覆播放班機失事前與指揮塔的最後通話，機組人員發出了3次“Mayday”求救信號。從記錄中尚無法判斷飛機遇難的原因。
TransAsia director Peter Chen said contact with the plane was lost four minutes after takeoff. He said weather conditions were suitable for flying and the cause of the accident was unknown.
臺灣復興航空執行長陳欣德表示，飛機起飛4分鐘後就和指揮塔失去了聯繫，並且天氣是適合飛行的。目前失事原因還不清楚。
It was the airline's second French-Italian-built ATR 72 to crash in the past year.
去年，這部法意製造的ATR72型飛機也曾發生過失事。
ATR, a French-Italian consortium based in Toulouse, France, said it was sending a team to Taiwan to help in the investigation.
ATR， 是一家由法國與意大利合組的飛機制造商，總部位於法國圖盧茲，目前已派遣團隊至臺灣協助調查原因。
While it's too early to say what caused the crash, engine trouble or weight shifting were unlikely to be causes. Other possible factors include pilot error, weather or freak incidents such as bird strikes.
目前要知道失事班機遇難原因還尚早，引擎故障和重力失衡都不太可能發生，其他可能性還包括：飛行員操作失誤，天氣原因，反常事件，如機鳥相撞等。
