48 dead, 10 injured in Taiwan plane crash

via BBCA passenger plane has crashed after a failed emergency landing（迫降） in Taiwan, killing more than 40 people, local officials say.

The domestic flight crashed near Magong airport on the outlying Penghu

island, reports said.

There were a total of 54 passengers and four crew（机组人员） on board, Taiwan's CNA （台“中央”新闻社）news agency reported.

Aviation officials said flight GE222 aborted its initial（首次） landing and then crashed（坠毁）, local media reported.

Transport minister Yeh Kuang-Shih said that 47 people were killed and 11 were injured, CNA reported. "It's chaotic （混乱）[at] the scene," Jean Shen, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, told Reuters news agency.

Earlier on Wednesday, Taiwan was battered by strong winds and rain from a tropical storm（热带风暴）, Typhoon Matmo.

However, an official at the Civil Aeronautics Administration told Reuters

that bad weather at the time of the crash did not exceed（超越） international regulations for landing.（飞机着陆时天气指标并未超越国际着陆标准）