Rescuers used a crane to hoist the wrecked fuselage of a TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s capital last night as they searched for a number of people missing in a crash that killed at least 31 others.

A Taiwanese flight with 58 people aboard went sideways, clipped an elevated road and crashed into a river shortly after takeoff from the island’s capital of Taipei, killing at least 12 people.