TAIWAN-AVIATION-ACCIDENT

TAIWAN-AVIATION-ACCIDENT

Relatives of passengers on TransAsia Airways flight GE222 pray at an altar set up for the victims the day after the ATR 72-500 plane crashed near the airport at Magong on the Penghu island chain on July 24, 2014. Taiwanese officials defended flight clearance given to a plane which crashed while trying to land during stormy weather, killing 48 people, as sobbing relatives gathered to identify their loved ones. AFP PHOTO / SAM YEH