Forty-seven people were killed when a passenger plane operated by TransAsia Airways crashed on Taiwan's outlying island county of Penghu on Wednesday evening, local officials said.

"It was thunderstorm conditions during the crash," said Hsi Wen-guang, a spokesman for the Penghu County Government Fire Bureau told Reuters.

The China Times reported that TransAsia Airways flight GE 222, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was carrying 54 passengers and four crew members. It took off at 5:43 p.m. from the southern city of Kaohsiung.

At 7:06 p.m. the pilot reportedly aborted the aircraft's initial landing at Penghu's Magong airport and asked to make a go-around at an altitude of 300 feet.

The plane then lost contact with flight radars and crashed in a nearby village, killing 47 people on board, Reuters reported. Eleven people were injured and were taken to hospital, China Times reported.

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