Earlier Friday, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said the carrier would be banned from adding new international routes for a year. TransAsia had already been excluded from new rights after a crash in July killed 49 people. The second plane crash extends its exclusion to February 4, 2016, the CAA said.
Authorities said 35 people died, with 15 injured and eight passengers—all Chinese nationals—missing. The plane departed Taipei Songshan Airport en route to the outlying island of Kinmen on Wednesday morning. According to the CAA, the control tower lost communication with the cockpit four minutes after takeoff.