【痛心】又见空难！台湾飞机失事 迫降坠毁48人死亡

A passenger plane has crashed after a failed emergency landing in Taiwan, killing more than 40 people, local officials say.
　　台湾官方报道，一架客机在台湾迫降失败后坠毁，超过40人死亡。

The domestic flight crashed near Magong airport on the outlying Penghu island, reports said.
　　据报道，这架台湾飞机坠毁在澎湖郊外的马公机场附近。

There were a total of 54 passengers and four crew on board, Taiwan's CNA news agency reported.
　　台湾中央通讯社报道，机上共有54名乘客和4名机组成员。
　　　
　　Aviation officials said flight GE222 aborted its initial landing and then crashed, local media reported.
　　当地媒体援引民航官员的话指出，GE222航班在试图降落失败后坠毁。

Transport minister Yeh Kuang-Shih said that 47 people were killed and 11 were injured, CNA reported.
　　中央通讯社报道，“交通部长”叶匡时证实共有47人死亡，11人受伤。
　　　
　　The agency previously said that 51 were feared killed, citing fire department officials.
　　该社之前报道共51人死亡，消息来源是消防人员。
　　　
　　"It's chaotic [at] the scene," Jean Shen, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, told Reuters news agency.
　　台湾民航局长沈启告诉路透社，“现场一片混乱”。
　　　
　　About 200 military personnel have joined rescuers in the search for survivors.
　　约200名军人参加救援和寻找幸存者。
　　　
　　Firefighters and other emergency personnel are attempting to rescue those on board.
　　救火队员和急救人员正试图救援机上人员。
　　　
　　"It was thunderstorm conditions during the crash," said Hsi Wen-guang, Penghu County Government Fire Bureau spokesman.
　　澎湖县消防局发言人表示，“坠机时是雷雨天气”。
　　　
　　"From the crash site we sent 11 people to hospital with injuries. A few empty apartment buildings adjacent to the runway caught fire, but no-one was inside at the time and the fire was extinguished."
　　“我们派了11人将伤者送往医院。跑道附近部分空民房被火焰波及，但当时并没有人在其中，火也已经熄灭。”
　　　
　　The ATR 72 turboprop aircraft departed from the southern municipality of Kaohsiung at 17:43 local time (09:43 GMT), but lost contact with controllers at 19:06, CNA said, citing the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
　　中央通讯社援引民航局消息，这架ATR72螺旋桨飞机于当地时间17:43离开南部城市高雄，在19:06失去联系。
　　　
　　The plane was found at Penghu island's Xixi village in flames, local media reported.
　　当地媒体报道，飞机在澎湖西溪乡被发现，机身燃起大火。
　　　
　　TransAsia Airways' General Manager Hsu Yi-Tsung has tearfully apologised for the accident, the Central News Agency reported, pledging to spare no effort in the rescue operation and to transport relatives of passengers on the flight to Magong on Thursday morning.
　　复兴航空总经理徐以聪含泪为此次事故道歉，保证将全力救援，并会在周四上午将乘客的亲属送到马公。
　　　
　　Earlier on Wednesday, Taiwan was battered by strong winds and rain from a tropical storm, Typhoon Matmo.
　　周三早些时候，台湾遭遇热带风暴“麦德姆”带来的强风和降水。
　　　
　　However, an official at the Civil Aeronautics Administration told Reuters that bad weather at the time of the crash did not exceed international regulations for landing.
　　但民航局官员告诉路透社，坠机时的糟糕天气并未超过能够降落的国际标准。

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