14:05 Rescue crew try to hoist plane wreckage

Rescuers help save passengers. [Photo/TVBS]

Of the nine confirmed dead, four are male and five female, according to the local rescue authority. However, local media are reporting a death toll of 10.

Rescue crew are currently drilling holes into the aircraft's body, possibly preparing to raise it out of water.

13:37 Nine killed, 31 mainland passengers aboard

A Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday morning, killing nine, a Xinhua reporter said from the scene.

Flight ATR-72, which was headed for Kinmen from Taipei, had 58 people on board, including 31 passengers from the Chinese mainland. It crash landed in the Keelung River after it clipped an elevated motorway with its wing.

A total of 28 passengers have been rescued and taken to nearby hospitals in Taipei and the New Taipei City.

12:55 Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane plunges into river

Pictures taken by a motorist and posted on Twitter show the plane cartwheeling over the motorway soon after the ATR 72-600 aircraft took off from Taipei.[Photo/Agencies]

A plane of the Taiwan TransAsia Airways came down into a Taipei river Wednesday, with more than 50 people on board, confirmed the civil aviation authorities of Taiwan.

Contact with the ATR-72 Flight, scheduled from Taipei to Kinmen, lost at about 11 am. The the plane was found in the river by the Nanhu Bridge.