The Associated Press is reporting that a plane crashed at an airport on a small Taiwanese island late Wednesday local time, killing 51 people and injuring seven. The flight was making a second landing attempt during a storm, the wire service claimed.
The flight was heading from the capital city Taipei to the island Penghu, halfway between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan's Central News Agency cites the Civil Aviation Administration as saying the flight carried 54 passengers and four flight crew and was operated by a Taiwanese airline, TransAsia Airways.
Typhoon Matmo is currently causing rain and high winds over Taiwan, even though the center of the storm was (at the time of the crash) in mainland China.